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CORONERS ACT 1997 - SECT 30 Reinterment of remains or ashes

CORONERS ACT 1997 - SECT 30

Reinterment of remains or ashes

    (1)     A coroner by whom a warrant for the exhumation of the body or the recovery of the ashes of a person was issued must, as soon as the coroner is satisfied that the exhumed body should be reinterred or the ashes returned to the person entitled to them, by order, direct a person named in the order to reinter the body or return the ashes.

    (2)     The coroner must give a copy of an order under subsection (1) to a member of the immediate family of the deceased or a representative of that member.