New South Wales Consolidated Acts

BOTANY CEMETERY AND CREMATORIUM ACT 1972 - SECT 11

11 Advertisement to be published before removal of monuments or remains

(1) At least three months before any monuments or remains are removed by the cemetery trust pursuant to the provisions of subsection one of section ten of this Act, an advertisement of the intention to remove them and drawing attention to the right conferred by subsection two of this section on the representatives or persons claiming to be representatives referred to in the said subsection two shall be inserted twice at an interval of not less than two weeks in a newspaper or newspapers published and circulating in the locality, and twice at an interval of not less than two weeks in a newspaper or newspapers published in Sydney and circulating widely throughout New South Wales.

(2) At any time after the publication of the first advertisement referred to in subsection one of this section and before the expiration of three months after the publication of the last of those advertisements the representatives or any persons claiming to be representatives of any person buried in a prescribed grave or to whom a prescribed monument relates may, at their own expense, and with the permission of the cemetery trust, remove the monument and may, at their own expense, and with the permission of the Director-General of Public Health, remove from the cemetery the remains of the person whose representatives they are or claim to be to another cemetery for burial or to a crematorium for cremation.