New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

PUBLIC HEALTH (DISPOSAL OF BODIES) REGULATION 2002

- Made under the Public Health Act 1991
- As at 27 November 2009
- Reg 643 of 2002

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 - PRELIMINARY

   1.      Name of Regulation
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Definitions
   4.      Notes

   PART 2 - FACILITIES

   5.      Premises for handling of bodies
   6.      Facilities of body preparation rooms
   7.      Waste disposal
   8.      Vehicles

   PART 3 - HANDLING OF BODIES

   9.      Retention of bodies by a person who is not a funeral director
   10.     Retention of bodies by a funeral director
   11.     Embalming of bodies
   12.     Invasive body preparation procedures
   13.     Bodies to be placed in body bags
   14.     Protective clothing
   15.     Removal of bodies from body bags
   16.     Body viewing
   17.     48 hours’ holding
   18.     Register of bodies prepared in a mortuary
   19.     Bodies to be placed in coffins
   20.     Burial of bodies
   21.     Bagging of bodies for freighting
   22.     Burials in certain areas prohibited
   23.     Burials in vaults
   24.     Register of burials

   PART 4 - EXHUMATIONS

   25.     Exhumation without approval prohibited
   26.     Application to exhume remains
   27.     Approval to exhume remains
   28.     Exhumations not to take place without officer present

   PART 5 - CREMATORIES

   29.     Cleanliness
   30.     Closing of crematories

   PART 6 - CREMATION

   31.     No refusal to cremate
   32.     One body at a time
   33.     Cremation within 4 hours
   34.     No cremation against dead person’s wishes
   35.     No cremation without documentation
   36.     Cremation application: dead persons other than still-born children
   37.     Cremation application: still-born children
   38.     Cremation certificate
   39.     Medical referee’s cremation permit: dead persons who are not still-born children
   40.     Coroner’s cremation permit
   41.     Medical referee’s permit: still-born children
   42.     Medical referees
   43.     Ashes
   44.     Register of cremations
   45.     Keeping of register and documents
   46.     (Repealed)

   PART 7 - REGISTER OF MORTUARIES AND CREMATORIES

   47.     Register of mortuaries and crematories
   48.     Notification of details of mortuaries and crematories

   PART 8 - GENERAL

   49.     Inspection
   50.     Public access to registers
   51.     Guidelines as defence
   52.     Saving