Tasmanian Consolidated Acts

BURIAL AND CREMATION ACT 2002 - SECT 34

      (1) Before proceeding under section 33 with the demolition or removal of any graves, monuments or vaults erected on the land or with the exhumation and removal of any human remains, a cemetery manager must –

(a) give public notification in a newspaper circulating in the relevant municipal area on 3 occasions at intervals over a period of 12 months of the intention to demolish or remove the graves, monuments or vaults or to exhume and remove the human remains; and

(b) prepare a statement setting out –

(i) the names and dates appearing on the graves, monuments or vaults to be demolished or removed; and

(ii) any other particulars necessary for the identification of those graves, monuments or vaults and of the human remains to which they relate, so far as the particulars are ascertainable from the records of the cemetery or the inscriptions on the graves, monuments or vaults; and

(c) make the statement available for inspection by any person free of charge.

      (2) A notice published under subsection (1)(a) is to state where and when the statement prepared in accordance with subsection (1)(b) may be inspected.