PUBLIC HEALTH REGULATION 2012 - REG 79 Cremation application: dead persons other than still-born children

PUBLIC HEALTH REGULATION 2012 - REG 79

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

(1) An application for cremation of the body 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.