New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

PUBLIC HEALTH (DISPOSAL OF BODIES) REGULATION 2002 - REG 36

36 Cremation application: dead persons other than still-born children

(1) An application for cremation of a dead person who is not a still-born child is to be made in the approved form to a medical referee or coroner.

(2) The form may require any information contained in the form to be supported by a statutory declaration.

(3) The application may be made by:

(a) an executor of the estate of the dead person, or

(b) a nearest surviving relative of the dead person, or

(c) where there is no such executor or relative available to make the application-a person who, in the opinion of the medical referee or coroner, is a proper person in all the circumstances to make the application.