151Application for interment or cremation of body parts

151 Application for interment or cremation of body parts

(1) A person who wishes body parts to be interred or cremated in a public cemetery may apply to the cemetery trust responsible for that public cemetery for an authority under section 150.

(2) An application under subsection (1) must contain the prescribed information from a prescribed person.

(3) For the purposes of subsection (2), prescribed person means—

(a) a registered medical practitioner who treated the person to whom the body part belonged; or

(b) a registered medical practitioner of the hospital where the person to whom the body part belonged was treated; or

S. 151(3)(c) substituted by No. 77/2008 s. 129(Sch. 2 item 4.10).

(c) a coroner; or

(d) a person or class of person prescribed for the purposes of this section.