New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

PUBLIC HEALTH (DISPOSAL OF BODIES) REGULATION 2002 - REG 24

24 Register of burials

(1) A cemetery authority must maintain a register of all burials carried out in the cemetery the operations of which it directs.

(2) The cemetery authority must make in the register an entry relating to each burial immediately after the burial has been carried out.

(3) Each entry must include the following:

(a) the name, age and last address of the person whose body or remains have been buried,

(b) the date of the person’s death,

(c) the date of the burial,

(d) the section and allotment where the burial has been made,

(e) the name of the person (if any) who continues to hold any right of burial in that allotment,

(f) the name of the funeral director who transported the body to the cemetery,

(g) the fees paid to the cemetery authority for the burial.

(4) If a cemetery authority ceases to exist, the person who was its last chief executive officer must ensure that the register is sent to the Director-General or otherwise disposed of as the Director-General may direct.

Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.