90Approval to carry out lift and re-position procedure without exhumation licence

90 Approval to carry out lift and re-position procedure without exhumation licence

(1) A cemetery trust which has approved an application for a lift and re-position procedure may authorise a person, without an exhumation licence—

(a) to open a place of interment; and

(b) to lift any existing human remains which are interred in the place of interment; and

(c) to deepen or enlarge the place of interment if necessary; and

(d) to reposition the existing human remains in the place of interment, whether contained in a receptacle or not, so as to provide space for further interments in that place of interment.

(2) Without limiting the manner in which a lift and re‑position procedure is carried out, for the purposes of subsection (1)(d), a person may remove human remains from any receptacle and place them in another receptacle.

Division 5—Cancellation and discontinuance