Victorian Consolidated Regulations

CEMETERIES AND CREMATORIA REGULATIONS 2005

S.R. No. 76/2005
Version incorporating amendments as at 1 December 2008

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Regulation Page

   PART 1-PRELIMINARY

   1.      Objectives
   2.      Authorising provision
   3.      Commencement
   4.      Definitions

   PART 2-CEMETERY TRUST RECORDS

   5.      Cemetery trust records-prescribed information

   PART 3-APPLICATIONS FOR INTERMENT CREMATION AND EXHUMATION

   6.      Application for interment authorisation
   7.      Application for interment approval for interment other than in
           a public cemetery
   8.      Application for cremation authorisation
   9.      Certificate of registered medical practitioner authorising cremation
   10.     Prescribed person may apply for order
   11.     Application for interment or cremation of body parts
   12.     Application to Secretary for exhumation licence

   PART 4-INTERMENT

   13.     Requirements for enclosure of bodily remains and body parts
   14.     Depth of burial requirements
   15.     Requirements for interment in concrete-lined graves

   PART 5-CREMATION

   16.     Requirements for enclosure of bodily remains and body parts
   17.     Inspection of coffins and containers
   18.     Removal of fittings which may impede cremation process
   19.     Disposal of substances
   20.     Release of cremated human remains
   21.     Collection and disposal of cremated human remains

   PART 6-MAUSOLEA

   22.     Construction of mausolea
   23.     Interment in mausolea
   24.     Sealing of interment chamber in mausolea

   PART 7-BEHAVIOUR AND ACTIVITIES IN PUBLIC CEMETERIES

   25.     Commercial activities
   26.     Information to purchasers of monuments
   27.     Funerals
   28.     Offence to cause disturbance
   29.     Danger to person or property
   30.     Offence to play sport in a public cemetery
   31.     Offence to fish or bathe in a public cemetery
   32.     Offence to hunt in a public cemetery
   33.     Offence to camp in a public cemetery
   34.     Offence to remove items from a place of interment in a public cemetery
   35.     Offence to damage plants in a public cemetery
   36.     Written approval of cemetery trust for certain activities
   37.     Ceremonial use of fire in a public cemetery
   38.     Use of vehicles in a public cemetery
   39.     Use of vehicles in public cemeteries contrary to signs
   40.     Model rules-public cemeteries and crematoria
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           SCHEDULE 1-Application for Interment Authorisation
           SCHEDULE 2-Application for Interment Approval for Interment Other Than in a Public Cemetery
           SCHEDULE 3-Application for Cremation Authorisation
           SCHEDULE 4-Certificate of Registered Medical Practitioner Authorising Cremation
           SCHEDULE 5-Application to Secretary to the Department of Human Services for Exhumation Licence
           SCHEDULE 6-Model Rules

   PART 1-PRELIMINARY
   1. Objective
   2. Authorising provisions
   3. Definitions

   PART 2-GENERAL
   4. Written approval of cemetery trust for certain activities
   5. Opening hours
   6. Funerals
   7. Directions of cemetery trust
   8. Approval for certain mementos
   9. Items likely to cause harm
   10. Items must remain within boundaries
   11. Power to remove objects
   12. Power to inspect memorials, places of interment and buildings for ceremonies
   13. Access to and maintenance of work sites
   14. Entry of animals into a cemetery
   15. Control of animals in a cemetery
   16. Offence to build within a cemetery
   17. Offence to damage cemetery trust property
   18. Offence to dig or plant
   19. Obstruction of the exercise of the powers or functions of a cemetery trust
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           ENDNOTES
           1. General Information
           2. Table of Amendments
           3. Explanatory Details