158Exhumation licence required to move remains to another location

158 Exhumation licence required to move remains to another location

(1) If a person wishes to remove human remains from a place of interment and re-inter those human remains at another location, the person must obtain an exhumation licence.

(2) An exhumation licence is required under subsection (1) whether or not the proposed re-interment is—

(a) within the public cemetery where the human remains are currently interred; or

(b) outside the public cemetery where the human remains are currently interred.

(3) This section does not apply to the removal or re-interment of cremated human remains or body parts by—

(a) a cemetery trust in a public cemetery for which it is responsible; or

(b) the holder of a right of interment in accordance with this Act.

S. 158A inserted by No. 42/2005 s. 7.