Victorian Consolidated Regulations

CEMETERIES AND CREMATORIA REGULATIONS 2015

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Objectives  
   2.      Authorising provision  
   3.      Commencement  
   4.      Revocation  
   5.      Definitions  

   PART 2--CEMETERY TRUST RECORDS

   6.      Prescribed information—interment of bodily remains  
   7.      Prescribed information—interment of foetal remains  
   8.      Prescribed information—interment of cremated human remains  
   8A.     Prescribed information—interment or disposal of cremated human remains of unknown name or with an identifier  
   9.      Prescribed information—places of interment  
   10.     Prescribed information—cremation of bodily remains  
   11.     Prescribed information—cremation of foetal remains  
   12.     Prescribed information—right of interment  
   13.     Prescribed information—right of interment transferred  
   14.     Prescribed information—right of interment surrendered  
   15.     Prescribed information—right of interment cancelled  

   PART 3--APPLICATIONS FOR INTERMENT, CREMATION AND EXHUMATION

   16.     Application for interment authorisation  
   17.     Application for interment approval for interment other than in a public cemetery  
   18.     Application for cremation authorisation  
   19.     Certificate of registered medical practitioner authorising cremation  
   20.     Prescribed person may apply for order  
   21.     Application for interment or cremation of body parts  
   21A.    Application for interment or cremation of body parts of unknown name with an identifier  
   21B.    Prescribed persons—interment or cremation of body parts  
   22.     Application to Secretary for exhumation licence  

   PART 4--INTERMENT

   23.     Requirements for enclosure of bodily remains and body parts  
   24.     Depth of burial requirements  
   25.     Requirements for interment in concrete-lined graves  

   PART 5--CREMATION

   26.     Requirements for enclosure of bodily remains and body parts  
   27.     Inspection of coffins and containers  
   28.     Removal of fittings which may impede cremation process  
   29.     Disposal of substances  
   30.     Release of cremated human remains  
   31.     Collection and disposal of cremated human remains  

   PART 6--MAUSOLEA

   32.     Construction of mausolea  
   33.     Interment in mausolea  
   34.     Sealing of crypt space in mausolea  

   PART 7--BEHAVIOUR AND ACTIVITIES IN PUBLIC CEMETERIES

   35.     Commercial activities  
   36.     Information to purchasers of monuments  
   37.     Funerals  
   38.     Offence to cause disturbance  
   39.     Danger to person or property  
   40.     Offence to play sport in a public cemetery  
   41.     Offence to fish or bathe in a public cemetery  
   42.     Offence to hunt in a public cemetery  
   43.     Offence to camp in a public cemetery  
   44.     Offence to remove items from a place of interment or memorial in a public cemetery  
   45.     Offence to damage plants in a public cemetery  
   46.     Written approval of cemetery trust for certain activities  
   47.     Ceremonial use of fire in a public cemetery  
   48.     Use of vehicles in a public cemetery  
   49.     Use of vehicles in public cemeteries contrary to signs  
   50.     Model rules—public cemeteries and crematoria  
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