New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

PUBLIC HEALTH (DISPOSAL OF BODIES) REGULATION 2002 - REG 40

40 Coroner’s cremation permit

(1) A coroner who receives an application for cremation of the body of a person whose death is examinable under the Coroners Act 1980 by the coroner may issue a cremation permit in the approved form.

(2) However, a coroner must not issue a cremation permit for the body of a dead person if:

(a) the person left a written direction that his or her body was not to be cremated or that it was to be disposed of by some other means, or

(b) the application for cremation appears to the coroner to be incorrect or incomplete.

(3) A cremation permit issued for the body of a dead person by a person who exercises or performs the functions of a coroner in another State or Territory, under legislation of that State or Territory regulating the cremation of bodies, is taken to have been issued under this clause.