Victorian Current Acts

CEMETERIES AND CREMATORIA ACT 2003 - SECT 90

    (1)     A cemetery trust which has approved an application for a lift and re-position procedure may authorise a person, without an exhumation licence—

        (a)     to open a place of interment; and

        (b)     to lift any existing human remains which are interred in the place of interment; and

        (c)     to deepen or enlarge the place of interment if necessary; and

        (d)     to reposition the existing human remains in the place of interment, whether contained in a receptacle or not, so as to provide space for further interments in that place of interment.

    (2)     Without limiting the manner in which a lift and re‑position procedure is carried out, for the purposes of subsection (1)(d), a person may remove human remains from any receptacle and place them in another receptacle.

Division 5—Cancellation and discontinuance