New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

PUBLIC HEALTH (DISPOSAL OF BODIES) REGULATION 2002 - REG 21

21 Bagging of bodies for freighting

(1) A person must not use, or agree to the use of, a vehicle (other than a hearse or body collection vehicle) for transporting a body that the person has reason to believe is infected with an infectious disease without informing the owner or driver of the vehicle that the body is so infected.

(2) A funeral director must, before despatching a body by a carrier other than a funeral director or the operator of a mortuary transport service:

(a) comply with the procedure in clause 13 (4) in relation to the body as if the funeral director has reason to believe the body is infected with a List B disease, and

(b) enclose the body in a watertight coffin.

Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.