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CEMETERIES AND CREMATORIA ACT 2013 - SECT 86
Codes of conduct
86 Codes of conduct
(1) A Crown cemetery operator must prepare and adopt a code of conduct to be
observed by operator members and persons employed by the operator within 3
months after becoming the operator.
(1A) A code of conduct in force under
this section for a Crown cemetery trust for a Crown cemetery immediately
before this section was amended by the Crown Land Legislation Amendment Act
2017 continues in force for the purposes of this Act as if-- (a) the code had
been adopted by the Crown cemetery operator for that cemetery on the date it
was originally adopted, and
(b) the members of the board of the operator and
its employees had been signatories to the code.
(2) The cemetery operator is
to review its code of conduct at least every 3 years (or within such other
period as is prescribed by the regulations) and make such changes as it
considers appropriate.
(3) The code must include such matters as are
prescribed by the regulations.
(4) In particular, the code may contain
provisions for or with respect to the following conduct-- (a) conduct that
contravenes all or specified provisions of this Act or the regulations in all
or specified circumstances,
(b) improper or unethical conduct,
(c) abuse of
power and other misconduct,
(d) the disclosure of interests (whether
pecuniary or otherwise) that could conflict with the proper performance of
functions and avoidance of conflicts of interest,
(e) the disclosure of
confidential documents and information.
(5) The cemetery operator must
provide a copy of its code of conduct as in force from time to time to each
member of the trust board and employee and ask them to acknowledge their
obligations under the code by signing it.
(6) A member of a trust board or
employee must not contravene a code to which he or she is a signatory.
(7)
Nothing in this section or such a code gives rise to, or can be taken into
account in, any civil cause of action, and nothing in this section affects
rights or liabilities arising apart from this section.
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