Burial and Cremation Act 2022
74Burial notification may be provided after burial
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74 Burial notification may be provided after burial (1) Despite the requirement under section 66 to provide the burial notification before the burial in a location outside a cemetery, the burial notification may be provided after the burial if the person providing the notification was not able to provide the notification before the burial. A burial notification provided under subsection (1) contains information for a burial that has occurred. (2) The person providing the burial notification after a burial must inform the Agency of the reason why the burial notification was not provided before the burial. (3) If the Agency knows that the burial of a deceased person occurred and a burial notification for the burial was not provided to the Agency, the Agency may, in writing, direct the person who undertook the burial to provide a completed burial notification to the Agency within 60 days from the day the direction is received by the (4) For subsection (3), if the Agency directed a person to provide a completed burial notification to the Agency, the person is taken to have complied with the direction if another person provided the completed burial notification on behalf of the person. Examples for subsection (4) The person's employer or a next of kin of the deceased person.