New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

PUBLIC HEALTH (DISPOSAL OF BODIES) REGULATION 2002 - REG 45

45 Keeping of register and documents

(1) A cremation authority must keep all applications, certificates, permits and other documents relating to any cremation carried out by it and mark them with a number corresponding to the number in the register referred to in clause 44, and file them.

(2) The documents referred to in subclause (1) (but not the register of cremations or any part of it) may be destroyed by the cremation authority after the expiration of 15 years from the date of the cremation to which they relate.

(3) When a crematory is closed, its cremation authority must send all registers and documents relating to the cremations that have taken place there to the Director-General or otherwise dispose of them as the Director-General may direct.

Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.