Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

CEMETERIES AND CREMATORIA ACT 2003

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Name of Act  
   3.      Dictionary  
   4.      Notes  
   5.      Offences against Act—application of Criminal Code etc  

   PART 2--CEMETERIES AND CREMATORIA

           Division 2.1--Operation of cemeteries and crematoria

   6.      Codes of practice  
   7.      Guidelines for exercise of Minister's powers  
   8.      Perpetual tenure of graves etc  

           Division 2.2--Perpetual care trusts and reserves

   9.      Establishment of perpetual care trusts  
   10.     Establishment of perpetual care trust reserve  
   11.     Determination of trust percentages  
   12.     Payments into perpetual care trust  
   13.     Planning period  
   14.     Perpetual care trust reserve  
   15.     Protection of perpetual care trust  
   16.     Protection of perpetual care trust reserve  
   16A.    Accounts and records for perpetual care trusts  
   16B.    Audit  
   16C.    Dissolution of perpetual care trusts  

           Division 2.3--Improvement notices

   17.     Improvement notices  
   18.     Penalty for failing to end contravention  
   19.     Chief executive may take action to remedy consequences of  

           Division 2.4--Offences about burials and cremations

   20.     Person must not bury or cremate human remains except in accordance with  
   21.     Operator not to allow burial or cremation except in accordance with regulations  
   22.     Minister or magistrate may prohibit cremation  
   23.     Exhumation of human remains  
   24.     Burials to take place only at cemetery  
   25.     Cremations to take place only at crematorium  
   26.     Cremation to conceal offence  
   27.     Doctors certificates  

   PART 3--THE CEMETERIES AUTHORITY

           Division 3.1--Establishment of cemeteries authority and governing board

   28.     Establishment of cemeteries authority  
   28A.    Functions of cemeteries authority  
   29.     Establishment of governing board  
   29A.    Governing board members  
   30.     Ministerial directions to cemeteries authority  

           Division 3.2--Staff of cemeteries authority

   44.     Arrangements for staff  

   PART 4--NOTIFICATION AND REVIEW OF DECISIONS

   45.     Meaning of reviewable decision—pt 4  
   46.     Reviewable decision notices  
   46A.    Applications for review  

   PART 5--MISCELLANEOUS

   47.     Acts and omissions of representatives  
   49.     Determination of fees  
   50.     Approved forms  
   51.     Regulation-making power  
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           DICTIONARY
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