Victorian Numbered Acts

CEMETERIES AND CREMATORIA AMENDMENT (VETERANS REFORM) ACT 2015 (NO. 4 OF 2015) - SECT 5

    (1)     In section 85(2)(b) of the Principal Act—

        (a)     for "if the right" substitute "unless the right of interment relates to cremated human remains of a deceased identified veteran, if the right";

        (b)     for "human remains." substitute "human remains; and".

    (2)     After section 85(2)(b) of the Principal Act insert —

    "(c)     in the case of a right of interment that relates to cremated human remains of a deceased identified veteran, if that right is not extended or converted to a perpetual right of interment, the cemetery trust may—

              (i)     leave those interred cremated human remains undisturbed in perpetuity and convert the right of interment to a perpetual right of interment; or

              (ii)     remove those interred cremated human remains from their current place of interment and re-inter them at another location within the cemetery grounds and—

    (A)     remove any memorial at the current place of interment; and

    (B)     re-establish the memorial at the location of the re-interment or establish a new equivalent memorial at that location.".