Victorian Current Acts

CEMETERIES AND CREMATORIA ACT 2003 - SECT 87

    (1)     The holder of a right of interment for interring cremated human remains for 25 years may request the cemetery trust to—

        (a)     extend the right of interment for a further 25 years; or

        (b)     convert the right of interment to a perpetual right of interment.

    (2)     A request under subsection (1)—

        (a)     must be in writing; and

        (b)     may be made at any time before the expiry date of the right of interment; and

        (c)     must be accompanied by the relevant cemetery trust fee.

    (3)     On receiving a request under subsection (1), the cemetery trust must—

        (a)     extend the right of interment for a further 25 years, if the request is a request referred to in subsection (1)(a); or

        (b)     convert the right of interment to a perpetual right of interment, if the request is a request referred to in subsection (1)(b).

    (4)     A right of interment extended or converted under this section applies to the same place of interment as the original right of interment.

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