Tasmanian Consolidated Acts

BURIAL AND CREMATION ACT 2002 - SECT 33

      (1) For the purposes of complying with section 30, a cemetery manager may –

(a) construct roads, avenues and walks in or through the land; and

(b) erect and construct on the land any ornamental and other buildings and structures, and provide any seats, shelters and conveniences for the use of persons, as the cemetery manager thinks fit; and

(c) enclose, drain, turf, level and light the whole or any part of the land; and

(d) plant any trees, shrubs and plants that the cemetery manager thinks fit; and

(e) subject to sections 34 and 38 –

(i) demolish or remove any graves, monuments or vaults erected on the land; and

(ii) exhume any human remains which are interred there and inter those remains either in the land or elsewhere; and

(f) build on or under any portion of the land any structures or vaults that the cemetery manager thinks fit for the reception of any human remains which are not removed from the land for interment elsewhere; and

(g) generally execute works and do all acts and things necessary for laying out the land as a park or garden.

      (2) A closed cemetery which is laid out as a park or garden under this Division is to be available as a place of quiet recreation only.