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CEMETERIES AND CREMATORIA ACT 2003 (NO. 11 OF 2003)
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Long Title
PART 1--PRELIMINARY
1. Name of Act
2. Commencement
3. Dictionary
4. Notes
5. Offences against Act—application of Criminal Code etc
PART 2--CEMETERIES AND CREMATORIA
Division 2.1--Operation of cemeteries and crematoria
6. Codes of practice
7. Guidelines for exercise of Minister's powers
8. Perpetual tenure of graves etc
Division 2.2--Perpetual care trusts
9. Establishment of perpetual care trusts
10. Determination of trust percentage
11. Perpetual care funds
12. Payments into perpetual care fund
13. Protection of perpetual care funds
14. Provisions applying to authorised deposit-taking institutions
15. Accounts and records for perpetual care funds
16. Audit
Division 2.3--Improvement notices
17. Improvement notices
18. Penalty for failing to end contravention
19. Chief executive may take action to remedy consequences of
Division 2.4--Offences about burials and cremations
20. Person must not bury or cremate human remains except in accordance with
21. Operator not to allow burial or cremation except in accordance with regulations
22. Minister or magistrate may prohibit cremation
23. Exhumation of human remains
24. Burials to take place only at cemetery
25. Cremations to take place only at crematorium
26. Cremation to conceal offence
27. Doctors certificates
PART 3--THE CEMETERIES BOARD
Division 3.1--Establishment and functions
28. Establishment of board
29. Functions of board etc
30. Ministerial directions to board
31. Reports to Minister by board
32. Providing information to Minister by board
Division 3.2--Members of board
33. Members of board
34. Term of appointment of members
35. Ending of appointment of members
36. Conditions of appointment of members generally
Division 3.3--Proceedings of board
37. Time and place of meetings
38. Presiding member at meetings
39. Quorum at meetings
40. Voting at meetings
41. Conduct of meetings etc
42. Disclosure of interest by members
43. Members to be honest etc
Division 3.4--Staff
44. Arrangements for staff
PART 4--MISCELLANEOUS
45. Review of decisions
46. Notification of reviewable decisions
47. Acts and omissions of representatives
48. False or misleading statements
49. Determination of fees
50. Approved forms
51. Regulation-making power
PART 5--TRANSITIONAL MATTERS
Division 5.1--Assets and liabilities of former trustees
52. Meaning of former trustees for pt 5
53. Vesting of assets and liabilities of former trustees in board
54. Evidentiary certificate for vested assets and liabilities
55. Registration of changes in title to certain assets
56. Proceedings and evidence in relation to vested assets and liabilities
57. Perpetual care fund offence
Division 5.2--General
58. Transitional regulations
59. Modification of pt 5's operation
60. Expiry of pt 5
61. Repeal of Acts
62. Repeal of subordinate laws
63. Acts amended—sch 1
SCHEDULE 1
DICTIONARY
ENDNOTES
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