New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CAMPBELLTOWN PRESBYTERIAN CEMETERY ACT 1984 - SECT 6

6 Removal of human remains and monuments

(1) Where any of the relatives or descendants of any person buried in the relevant cemetery land requests the Commissioner:

(a) before the expiration of 2 months after the last publication of the prescribed advertisement-to disinter the remains of a person buried in the relevant cemetery land and reinter those remains in the cemetery, or

(b) before the expiration of 3 months after the last publication of the prescribed advertisement-to remove any monument relating to a person buried in the relevant cemetery land from that land,

the Commissioner shall:

(c) after having obtained the permission of the Secretary of the Department of Health so to do, disinter those remains and reverently reinter them in a part of the cemetery nominated by the Trust, or

(d) remove the monument and:

(i) where the monument relates to remains reinterred under paragraph (c), place the monument above the part of the cemetery in which those remains are reinterred, or

(ii) place the monument in a part of the cemetery nominated by the Trust or otherwise dispose of the monument in such manner as the Trust may authorise or direct,

as the case may require.

(2) Nothing in subsection (1) prevents the Commissioner from authorising the disinterment of remains or the removal of a monument, other than remains or a monument required to be disinterred or removed under that subsection, and the subsequent:

(a) reinterment of those remains, or placement of the monument, in a part of the cemetery nominated by the Trust, or

(b) disposal of the monument in such manner as the Trust may authorise or direct.