98Exhumation notification may be provided after exhumation

98 Exhumation notification may be provided after exhumation (1) Despite the requirement under section 93 to provide the exhumation notification before the exhumation outside a cemetery occurs, the notification may be provided after the exhumation if the person providing the notification was not able to provide the notification before the exhumation. An exhumation notification provided under subsection (1) contains information for an exhumation that has occurred.

Burial and Cremation Act 2022 60 (2) The person providing the exhumation notification after an exhumation must inform the Agency of the reason why the exhumation notification was not provided before the exhumation. (3) If the Agency knows that the exhumation of human remains occurred and an exhumation notification for the exhumation was not provided to the Agency, the Agency may, in writing, direct the person who undertook the exhumation to provide a completed exhumation notification to the Agency within 60 days from the day the direction is received by the person. (4) For subsection (3), if the Agency has directed a person to provide a completed exhumation notification to the Agency, the person is taken to have complied with the direction if another person has provided the completed exhumation notification on behalf of the Examples for subsection (4) The person's employer or a next of kin of the deceased person.