New South Wales Consolidated Acts

BEGA CEMETERY ACT 1943 - SECT 3

3 Removal of human remains, headstones etc

(1) The Minister for Education may, subject to the provisions of this section, cause the remains of any person buried in the land described in the Schedule to this Act (so far as such remains can by reasonable diligence be discovered and identified), together with all headstones, grave enclosures, and other surface structures, to be collected with due care and removed to the general cemetery at Bega, now in use, and shall cause any such remains so removed to be reverently reinterred and such headstones, grave enclosures and other surface structures to be re-erected.

(2) The cost of such removal, reinterment, and re-erection shall be defrayed by the Minister for Education from moneys appropriated by Parliament for the purpose.

(3) At least six months before the remains of any person or any headstones, grave enclosures, or other surface structures are removed under subsection one of this section, an advertisement of the intention to remove the same shall be inserted four times at intervals of not less than two weeks in newspapers circulating in the locality and four times at intervals of not less than two weeks in newspapers circulating in the Metropolitan Area.

(4) At any time after the appearance of the first advertisement referred to in subsection three of this section and before the expiration of six months from the appearance of the last of such advertisements the representatives of any person buried in the said land may, at their own expense, remove the headstone, grave enclosure, or other structure erected over the grave of such person or may, at their own expense, and with the permission of the Director-General of Public Health, remove to such cemetery as they desire, the remains of such person:
Provided that any such representatives shall give to the Minister for Education not less than twenty-eight days notice of their intention.