PUBLIC HEALTH REGULATION 2012 - REG 82
Medical referee's cremation permit: dead persons who are not still-born children
PUBLIC HEALTH REGULATION 2012 - REG 82
Medical referee's cremation permit: dead persons who are not still-born children
(1) A medical referee who receives-- (a) an application for cremation of the
body of a dead person who is not a still-born child, and
(b) a
cremation certificate for the body,
may issue a cremation permit for the body
in the approved form.
(2) However, a medical referee must not issue a
cremation permit for the body of a dead person if-- (a) the death of the
person is examinable under the Coroners Act 2009 by a coroner, or
(b) the
proposed cremation would be contrary to a written direction left by the
dead person, or
(c) the medical referee has not made an external examination
of the body, or
(d) the medical referee is not satisfied that the identity of
the body has been correctly disclosed in the application for cremation or in
the cremation certificate, or
(e) the medical referee is not satisfied that
the cause of death has been correctly identified in the cremation certificate,
or
(f) the application for cremation or the cremation certificate appears to
the medical referee to be otherwise incorrect or incomplete, or
(g) the same
medical referee issued a cremation certificate in respect of the body, or
(h)
the medical referee has administered professional care or treatment to the
dead person at any time in the 6 months preceding death, or
(i) the
medical referee is the spouse, de facto partner, parent, grandparent, aunt,
uncle, child, brother or sister of the dead person.
(3) A medical referee who
issues a cremation permit for the body of a dead person must include in the
permit any written direction left by the dead person about the particular
method of cremation that was or was not to be used.
(4) A person, other than
a medical referee, must not issue any permit required under this Division to
be issued by a medical referee. : Maximum penalty--20 penalty units.
