Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) A Board may, on the application of a person, and on payment of the prescribed fee grant to that person an exclusive right of burial in a grave, vault or burial ground comprising one or more allotments in a public cemetery.
(2) The Board shall permit the recognized head to state whether he or she has any objection, and if so the grounds therefor, to a grant being made if an allotment, in respect of which an application is made under subsection (1), is within a portion of a cemetery which has been set apart for the burial of deceased persons of a religious denomination or group of denominations.
(3) The Board shall permit the sub-branch of the organization known as the Returned Sailors', Soldiers' and Airmen's Imperial League of Australia situated nearest to the cemetery to state whether it has any objection, and if so the grounds therefor, to a grant being made if an allotment, in respect of which an application is made under subsection (1), is within a portion of a cemetery which has been set apart for the burial of deceased persons who are described in section 7(1)(b) or (c).