New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ST. THOMAS' CHURCH OF ENGLAND, NORTH SYDNEY, CEMETERY ACT 1967 - SECT 6

6 Advertisement to be published before removal of monuments etc

(1) At least three months before any monuments or other surface structures erected over graves are removed by the Council pursuant to subsection one or two of section five 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 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 such advertisements the representatives or any persons claiming to be representatives of any person who is buried in or whose ashes have been placed in or on the scheduled land may, at their own expense, and with the permission of the Council, remove the monument or other surface structure erected over the grave of or in respect of such person, whether or not such monument or other surface structure is one which is referred to in subsection one of section five of this Act, and may, at their own expense, and with the permission of the Director-General of Public Health, remove the remains of such person to another cemetery for burial or to a crematorium for cremation.