PUBLIC HEALTH (DISPOSAL OF BODIES) REGULATION 2002

Table of Provisions

PART 1 - PRELIMINARY

• 1 Name of Regulation
• 2 Commencement
• 3 Definitions
• 4 Notes

PART 2 - FACILITIES

• 5 Premises for handling of bodies
• 6 Facilities of body preparation rooms
• 7 Waste disposal
• 8 Vehicles

PART 3 - HANDLING OF BODIES

• 9 Retention of bodies by a person who is not a funeral director
• 10 Retention of bodies by a funeral director
• 11 Embalming of bodies
• 12 Invasive body preparation procedures
• 13 Bodies to be placed in body bags
• 14 Protective clothing
• 15 Removal of bodies from body bags
• 16 Body viewing
• 17 48 hours' holding
• 18 Register of bodies prepared in a mortuary
• 19 Bodies to be placed in coffins
• 20 Burial of bodies
• 21 Bagging of bodies for freighting
• 22 Burials in certain areas prohibited
• 23 Burials in vaults
• 24 Register of burials

PART 4 - EXHUMATIONS

• 25 Exhumation without approval prohibited
• 26 Application to exhume remains
• 27 Approval to exhume remains
• 28 Exhumations not to take place without officer present

PART 5 - CREMATORIES

• 29 Cleanliness
• 30 Closing of crematories

PART 6 - CREMATION

• 31 No refusal to cremate
• 32 One body at a time
• 33 Cremation within 4 hours
• 34 No cremation against dead person's wishes
• 35 No cremation without documentation
• 35A No cremation by alkaline hydrolysis of body infected with List B disease
• 36 Cremation application: dead persons other than still-born children
• 37 Cremation application: still-born children
• 38 Cremation certificate
• 39 Medical referee's cremation permit: dead persons who are not still-born children
• 40 Coroner's cremation permit
• 41 Medical referee's permit: still-born children
• 42 Medical referees
• 43 Ashes
• 44 Register of cremations
• 45 Keeping of register and documents
46. (Repealed)

PART 7 - REGISTER OF MORTUARIES AND CREMATORIES

• 47 Register of mortuaries and crematories
• 48 Notification of details of mortuaries and crematories

PART 8 - GENERAL

• 49 Inspection
• 50 Public access to registers
• 51 Guidelines as defence
• 51A Offences by corporations
• 52 Saving