67Order for interment

67 Order for interment

67 Order for interment

(1) A person must not carry out an interment in a cemetery unless the person holds an order for interment issued by the cemetery operator for the cemetery.

Maximum penalty—250 penalty units.

(1A) A cemetery operator must issue an order for interment in writing.

(1B) A cemetery operator must not issue an order for interment that—

(a) applies to more than 1 site, or

(b) permits the interment of the remains of more than 1 person at the interment site unless the remains will be interred at the same time.

(2) A cemetery operator must not unreasonably delay or withhold from making an order for interment.

(3) A cemetery operator may set down the procedure to be followed to obtain an order for interment.

(4) A cemetery operator must keep, for the period prescribed by the regulations, a record of the issue of an order for interment.

(5) Subsection (4) does not affect the operation of the State Records Act 1998 or the regulations made under that Act.

s 67: Am 2025 No 32, Sch 1[39] [40].