New Zealand Acts

BURIAL AND CREMATION ACT 1964 - SECT 37

37 Regulations as to cremation

1 Without prejudice to the power to make regulations conferred by section 59 the Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, make regulations controlling or restricting the establishment and closing of crematoria, prescribing the conditions subject to which and the manner in which cremations are to be carried out, and providing for all matters incidental thereto.

2 No person shall carry out or procure or take part in any cremation except in accordance with regulations made under this section.

3 The provisions of sections 38 to 40 shall be subject to any regulations made under this section.

4 Regulations under this section are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

Note: 1908 No 19 s 46

History: Section 37(4): inserted, on 28 October 2021, by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).