Burial and Cremation Act 2022
66Notification of burial outside cemetery
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66 Notification of burial outside cemetery (1) Before a burial outside a cemetery occurs, one of the following persons must notify the Agency of the proposed burial (a burial notification): (a) the person undertaking the burial; (b) the executor or administrator of the estate of the deceased (c) the deceased person's next of kin; (d) the representative for a burial ground. (2) The burial notification must include the following details: (c) the full name and contact details of the decision maker for the (d) if the person providing the burial notification is not the person undertaking the burial – the full name and contact details of the person undertaking the burial; (e) the information mentioned in section 40(1)(a) to (g); (f) the name of the burial ground or the name of the location of the burial site; (g) the GPS coordinates of the burial site where the human remains are proposed to be buried;
Burial and Cremation Act 2022 41 (h) whether the human remains are to be buried in the ground or interred; (i) whether the burial site will be a single burial or multiple burial; (j) the proposed date of burial; (k) any other information prescribed by regulation. (3) The person providing the burial notification may include a statement in the burial notification informing the Agency that certain information mentioned in subsection (2) is culturally sensitive information. (4) If the GPS coordinates mentioned in subsection (2)(g) cannot be (5) In addition to the burial notification, the applicant must also provide the documents mentioned in section 67.