Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

CEMETERIES ACT - SECT 40

The Administrator may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing all matters which by this Act are required or permitted to be prescribed, or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed, for carrying out or giving effect to this Act, and in particular for:

        (a)     the use and management of cemeteries;

        (b)     regulating and controlling the digging, making and maintenance of graves, vaults and places of burial in cemeteries and fixing the position thereof;

        (c)     prescribing the manner of burial and the conditions under which graves, vaults and places of burial in cemeteries may be re-opened;

        (d)     prescribing the powers, duties and remuneration of curators;

        (e)     regulating and controlling the erection and maintenance of monuments, tombstones, headstones and other structures;

        (f)     regulating the receipt and control of moneys paid, contributed or donated to Boards;

        (g)     prohibiting, except under licence granted by the Minister, the undertaking of funerals, and the acceptance of fees for the undertaking of funerals, in a cemetery in respect of which a curator has been appointed under section 38;

        (h)     prescribing the form of, the manner in which an application may be made for, and the fee payable in respect of, a licence referred to in paragraph (g);

            (i)     protecting buildings, fittings, works, apparatus, monuments, tombstones, headstones and enclosures within cemeteries;

        (j)     regulating the use and management of crematoria;

        (k)     regulating the duties of caretakers and servants of Boards;

        (l)     regulating the proceedings of Boards; and

        (m)     prescribing penalties not exceeding 1 penalty unit for an offence against the regulations.