59Surrender of unexercised right of burial

59 Surrender of unexercised right of burial (1) The grantee of an unexercised exclusive right of burial may surrender the right to the manager of the public cemetery or independent cemetery for which it was granted. (2) Subsection (1) includes a right that has been exercised but after which the human remains have been exhumed. (3) A grantee surrendering an exclusive right of burial has no further entitlements under that right. (4) If an exclusive right of burial is surrendered, the manager may do any of the following in respect of the burial site to which the surrendered right applied: (a) grant a new exclusive right of burial under section 50(2); (b) give a burial approval under section 38(1) for the burial of human remains not in relation to an exclusive right of burial; (c) use the area for a different purpose other than burying human

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