New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

PUBLIC HEALTH (DISPOSAL OF BODIES) REGULATION 2002 - REG 18

18 Register of bodies prepared in a mortuary

(1) A person who operates a mortuary must maintain a register of all bodies prepared in the mortuary.

(2) The person must make an entry in the register relating to each body immediately after the body is prepared.

(3) Each entry must include the following:

(a) the name, age and last address of the person whose body was prepared,

(b) the date of the person’s death,

(c) the date the body was received,

(d) the date the body was removed from the mortuary,

(e) the name of the cemetery or crematory to which, or the person to whom, the body was delivered.

Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.