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CEMETERIES AND CREMATORIA REGULATIONS 2005 (SR NO 76 OF 2005)


TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Objectives  
   2.      Authorising provision  
   3.      Commencement  
   4.      Definitions  

   PART 2--CEMETERY TRUST RECORDS

   5.      Cemetery trust records—prescribed information  

   PART 3--APPLICATIONS FOR INTERMENT CREMATION AND EXHUMATION

   6.      Application for interment authorisation  
   7.      Application for interment approval for interment other than in a public cemetery  
   8.      Application for cremation authorisation  
   9.      Certificate of registered medical practitioner authorising cremation  
   10.     Prescribed person may apply for order  
   11.     Application for interment or cremation of body parts  
   12.     Application to Secretary for exhumation licence  

   PART 4--INTERMENT

   13.     Requirements for enclosure of bodily remains and body parts  
   14.     Depth of burial requirements  
   15.     Requirements for interment in concrete-lined graves  

   PART 5--CREMATION

   16.     Requirements for enclosure of bodily remains and body parts  
   17.     Inspection of coffins and containers  
   18.     Removal of fittings which may impede cremation process  
   19.     Disposal of substances  
   20.     Release of cremated human remains  
   21.     Collection and disposal of cremated human remains  

   PART 6--MAUSOLEA

   22.     Construction of mausolea  
   23.     Interment in mausolea  
   24.     Sealing of interment chamber in mausolea  

   PART 7--BEHAVIOUR AND ACTIVITIES IN PUBLIC CEMETERIES

   25.     Commercial activities  
   26.     Information to purchasers of monuments  
   27.     Funerals  
   28.     Offence to cause disturbance  
   29.     Danger to person or property  
   30.     Offence to play sport in a public cemetery  
   31.     Offence to fish or bathe in a public cemetery  
   32.     Offence to hunt in a public cemetery  
   33.     Offence to camp in a public cemetery  
   34.     Offence to remove items from a place of interment in a public cemetery  
   35.     Offence to damage plants in a public cemetery  
   36.     Written approval of cemetery trust for certain activities  
   37.     Ceremonial use of fire in a public cemetery  
   38.     Use of vehicles in a public cemetery  
   39.     Use of vehicles in public cemeteries contrary to signs  
   40.     Model rules—public cemeteries and crematoria  
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