Regulation 63 of the Principal Regulations is rescinded and the following regulations are substituted:

63.     Prescribed person may enter cemeteries and crematoria

(1)  The following persons may enter, at any reasonable time, a cemetery or crematorium, for the purpose of determining if the Act (including these regulations) has been, or is being, complied with:

(a) the Director of Local Government;

(b) an authorised officer.

(2)  In addition to subregulation (1), the regulator may enter a cemetery, at any time, for the purpose of determining if the Act (including these regulations) has been, or is being, complied with.

(3)  A person who enters a cemetery or crematorium under this regulation, for the purpose of determining if the Act (including these regulations) has been, or is being, complied with, may do any one or more of the following measures:

(a) search the crematorium or cemetery;

(b) require a person to produce any records, documents or other things for inspection;

(c) take extracts from, or make copies of, those records or documents;

(d) take into the crematorium or cemetery any equipment or material reasonably necessary for the purpose of undertaking a measure specified in this regulation;

(e) require a person to give the person entering the cemetery or crematorium under this regulation any assistance that the person so entering requires;

(f) if the person has a reasonable belief that the Act or these regulations have been, or are being, contravened, seize any records, documents, samples or other things relevant to the contravention.

63A.     Medical practitioner fees

A medical practitioner who attends a place of death of a deceased person in accordance with these regulations is entitled to claim from the estate of the deceased person a fee for that attendance as if a medical certificate or a declaration of life extinct had not been issued in respect of that deceased person.

63B.     Fees generally

For the purposes of the Act, the fees specified in Schedule 2 are prescribed for the matters to which they respectively relate.

63C.     Infringement offences

For the purposes of section 50B of the Act –

(a) an offence against a provision specified in column 2 of the table in Schedule 3 is prescribed as an infringement notice offence; and

(b) the penalty specified in column 3 of the table in Schedule 3 is prescribed as the penalty payable in respect of an individual for the relevant offence specified in column 2 of that table; and

(c) the penalty specified in column 4 of the table in Schedule 3 is prescribed as the penalty payable in respect of a body corporate for the relevant offence specified in column 2 of that table.