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BURIAL AND CREMATION ACT 2019 (NO. 50 OF 2019) - SECT 58

Cemetery disclosure document
(1)  A cemetery manager intending to sell all, or any portion, of a cemetery under this Part must ensure that the proposed purchaser under a contract for sale of the cemetery receives a document disclosing the information specified in subsection (2)  –
(a) if the contract is in writing, at least 48 hours before the contract is entered into; or
(b) if the contract is not in writing, at least 48 hours before ownership of all, or any portion, of the cemetery is transferred in accordance with the contract.
Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 50 penalty units.
(2)  A document disclosing information under subsection (1) is to be in an approved form and include the following information:
(a) a statement specifying –
(i) that, on the transfer of the ownership of the cemetery, the proposed purchaser is the cemetery manager for the cemetery; and
(ii) that, as the cemetery manager for the cemetery, the proposed purchaser would hold the cemetery on trust in accordance with this Act; and
(iii) the other obligations under this Act that would apply to the proposed purchaser as cemetery manager for the cemetery;
(b) the number of persons who have been granted one of the following rights, in respect of the cemetery, that is yet to be fulfilled:
(i) an exclusive right of burial;
(ii) an exclusive right granted under section 85 ;
(iii) a grant in fee of an interment plot;
(iv) a grant for a term of an interment plot;
(c) the number of agreements under section 39(3) in force in respect of a vault, grave or monument within the cemetery and the obligations imposed on the cemetery manager of the cemetery under the agreement;
(d) the provisions made in respect of the cemetery, in accordance with section 36 , for the purposes specified in that section;
(e) a statement that, on the transfer of the ownership of the cemetery, the proposed purchaser is required to fulfil each of the rights specified in paragraph (b) , or the agreements referred to in paragraph (c) , in respect of the cemetery, whether or not the person holding the right was included in the number of persons provided under that paragraph;
(f) a statement that the audit undertaken in respect of the cemetery, in accordance with section 53 , is available to the proposed purchaser as specified;
(g) any other prescribed information.
(3)  A cemetery manager must not knowingly provide false or misleading information to a proposed purchaser under this section.
Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 100 penalty units.



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