2238GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 17 March 2022

2238 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 17 March 2022 CEMETERIES ACT 1986 1.2 Application 1.3 Commencement 1.5 Interpretation PART 2—ADMINISTRATION 2.1 Powers and functions of CEO PART 3—APPLICATION FOR FUNERALS 3.1 Application for burial 3.2 Applications to be accompanied by certificates etc 3.3 Certificate of identification 3.4 Minimum notice required PART 4—FUNERAL DIRECTORS 4.1 Funeral director’s licence expiry 4.2 Single funeral permits 4.3 Application refusal PART 5—FUNERALS 5.1 Requirements for funerals and coffins 5.2 Funeral processions 5.3 Vehicle entry restricted 5.4 Vehicle access and speed limitations 5.5 Offenders may be ordered to leave 5.6 Conduct of funeral by Board Division 2—Placement of ashes 5.7 Disposal of ashes PART 6—BURIALS 6.1 Depth of graves 6.2 Mausoleum, etc PART 7—MEMORIALS AND OTHER WORK 7.1 Application for monumental work 7.2 Placement of monumental work 7.3 Removal of rubbish 7.4 Operation of work 7.5 Removal of sand, soil or loam 7.6 Hours of work 7.7 Unfinished work 7.8 Use of wood 7.9 Plants and trees 7.10 Supervision

17 March 2022 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 2239 7.11 Australian War Graves 7.12 Placing of glass domes and vases Division 2—Memorial plaque section 7.13 Requirements of a memorial plaque Division 3—Licensing of monumental masons 7.14 Monumental mason’s licence 7.15 Expiry date, non-transferability 7.16 Carrying out monumental work 7.17 Responsibilities of the holder of a monumental mason’s licence 7.18 Cancellation of a monumental mason’s licence PART 8—GENERAL 8.1 Animals 8.2 Damaging and removing of objects 8.3 Withered flowers 8.4 Littering and vandalism 8.5 Advertising 8.6 Obeying signs and directions 8.7 Removal from the cemetery PART 9—OFFENCES AND MODIFIED PENALTY 9.1 General 9.2 Modified penalties SCHEDULE 1—MODIFIED PENALTIES SCHEDULE 2—INFRINGEMENT NOTICE SCHEDULE 3—INFRINGEMENT WITHDRAWAL NOTICE

2240 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 17 March 2022 CEMETERIES ACT 1986 Cemeteries Act 1986 and the Local Government Act 1995 and under all other powers enabling it, the Council of the Shire of Dowerin resolved on 15 February 2022 to make the following local law. Shire of Dowerin Cemeteries Local Law 2022. 1.2 Application This local law applies to the Dowerin and Minnivale Cemeteries (Reserves 16736 and 14985) located in the district. 1.3 Commencement The Shire of Dowerin and Minnivale Cemeteries (Reserves 16736 and 14985) By-laws published in the Government Gazette on 9 February 1970 is repealed. 1.5 Interpretation In this local law, unless the context otherwise requires— Cemeteries Act 1986; authorised officer means an employee of the Board authorised by the Board for the purposes of performing any function or exercising any power conferred upon an authorised officer by this local law; Board means the local government; CEO means the chief executive officer, for the time being, of the Board; coffin means a coffin or other receptacle used for the transportation of a dead body to the grave site, or the receptacle used for the burial of a dead body in a grave; crypt has the same meaning as vault; funeral director means a person holding a current funeral director’s licence; mausoleum means a building or construction wholly above or partially above and below ground level, so constructed as to allow the deposition of dead bodies into a compartment in the wall or floor and being sealed from view; memorial includes headstone, plaque, tombstone, monumental work, inscription, kerbing, enclosure and any other fixture or thing commemorating a grave or placement of ashes; monument means a sculpture, statue, plaque, grave boundary marker, fence or cover, approved by the Board, commemorating a grave or placement of ashes; monumental mason’s licence means a licence issued under clause 7.14; monumental work when the term is used as an abstract noun shall include the erection, alteration or removal of or other working upon a monument on a grave; nuisance means— (a) an activity or condition which is harmful or annoying and which gives rise to legal liability in the tort of public or private nuisance at law; (b) an unreasonable interference with the use and enjoyment of a person of his or her ownership or occupation of land; or (c) interference which causes material damage to land or other property on the land affected by the interference; personal representative means— (a) The administrator or executor of an estate of a deceased person; (b) The person who, by law of practice, has the right to apply for administration of the estate of the deceased person; or (c) A person having lawful custody of a dead body;