61Records as evidence

61 Records as evidence

(1) A record required to be kept under this Part is evidence in any proceedings of the interments, places of interment, cremations or rights of interment appearing in that record.

(2) A copy or extract from a record kept under this Part by a cemetery trust and sealed by that cemetery trust is evidence in any proceedings of the interments, places of interment, cremations or rights of interment appearing in that copy or extract.

Part 5—Closure of public cemeteries and historic cemetery parks

Division 1—Closure of public cemeteries

62 Order closing public cemetery

The Governor in Council, by order published in the Government Gazette, may close a public cemetery or part of a public cemetery if—

(a) there has been no interment of human remains at the public cemetery or in that part of the public cemetery for at least 25 years; and

(b) the cemetery trust responsible for the public cemetery has not granted a right of interment in relation to that cemetery or part of the cemetery for at least 25 years.