Western Australian Current Acts

CREMATION ACT 1929 - SECT 6

6 .         Site of crematorium not included in cemetery deemed to be cemetery for certain purposes

                Where an association holding a licence under section 4 is using and conducting a crematorium on land held by such association for the purpose, and which is not part of a public cemetery, it shall be lawful for the association to use such portions of the said land as it thinks fit for the burial of the ashes of dead human bodies after cremation, and, in relation to such land, the association shall have all the rights, powers, and authorities of the Board of a public cemetery in accordance with laws for the time being in force and relating to public cemeteries, and the said land shall to all intents and purposes be deemed to be a public cemetery, save and except that only the ashes of dead human bodies after cremation shall be buried therein, unless the association otherwise determines.

        [Section 6 amended: No. 103 of 1986 s. 5.]