New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CEMETERIES AND CREMATORIA ACT 2013 - SECT 66

66 Exhumations

(1) Exhumations are not to take place--

(a) except in accordance with the requirements of the regulations made under the Public Health Act 2010 , and

Note : See Division 4 of Part 8 of the Public Health Regulation 2012 .

(b) unless an order for exhumation has been issued by the cemetery operator.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1), any exhumation is to be carried out in accordance with any cultural or religious practice applicable to the dead person whose remains are to be exhumed.

(3) In this section--

"exhumation" means the removal of a dead person's remains (not being cremated remains) from a grave or vault, but does not include their removal from one vault for immediate transfer to another vault in the same cemetery or their temporary removal for the purposes of reburial in the same grave or vault or the re-interment of those remains in accordance with section 55 (4).