New South Wales Consolidated Acts

GLADESVILLE MENTAL HOSPITAL CEMETERY ACT 1960 - SECT 3

3 Removal of human remains, headstones etc

(1) Subject to the provisions hereinafter contained, the Minister may cause the remains of all persons buried in the lands described in Parts 1 and 2 of the Schedule to this Act (so far as such remains can by reasonable diligence be discovered or identified) together with all headstones, grave enclosures and other surface structures on such lands to be collected with due care and removed from such lands 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 in such cemetery as the Minister may determine.

(2) The cost of such removal, reinterment and re-erection shall be borne by the Minister.

(3) The Minister shall cause an advertisement of his intention to remove such remains, headstones, grave enclosures or other surface structures under the provisions of subsection one of this section, to be published three times at intervals of not less than two weeks in one or more newspapers circulating in the Metropolitan Area and no such remains, headstones, grave enclosures or other surface structures shall be so removed before the expiration of three months from publication of the last of such advertisements.

(4)

(a) At any time after publication of the first advertisement referred to in subsection three of this section and before the expiration of three months from publication of the last of such advertisements, the representatives or any persons claiming to be the representatives of any person buried in the said lands may, at their own expense, remove the headstone, grave enclosure or other surface structure erected over the grave of such person, and may, at their own expense, and with the permission of the Director General of Public Health, remove the remains of such person to such cemetery as they may desire.

(b) Any such representatives or any such persons claiming to be such representatives shall give to the Minister not less than twenty-eight days’ notice of their intention.