Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

CREMATION ACT 1966 NO 10 (REPEALED) - SECT 14

    (1)     After the cremation of a dead body, a cremation authority may deliver the ashes to the person who made application for the cremation or, with the consent in writing of that person, to any other person.

    (2)     Where, in accordance with a notice under section 9, a cremation authority cremates the body of a deceased person, the authority may deliver the ashes to the executor of the will, or the administrator of the estate, of the deceased person or, if the cremation authority does not know the name or address of that executor or administrator or there is no such executor or administrator, to the person believed by the cremation authority to be the nearest relative of the deceased person or, with the consent in writing of that executor, administrator or nearest relative, as the case may be, to any other person.

    (3)     A cremation authority may give notice to the applicant for the cremation of a body, or to a person entitled to receive the ashes of a body under subsection (2), that the ashes of the body are available for disposal.

    (4)     Where—

        (a)     a period of 14 days has elapsed after a cremation authority has given notice to a person in accordance with subsection (3); and

        (b)     the ashes of the body referred to in the notice have not been disposed of in accordance with the direction of that person,

the cremation authority may inter those ashes in ground reserved for that purpose.