Cemeteries and Crematoria Act 2020
63Register—burial, cremation, interment etc
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63 Register—burial, cremation, interment etc (1) The licensee of a facility must keep a register of each burial, cremation, interment, disinterment and exhumation at the facility. (2) The register must include the following information for a burial: (a) the name of the deceased person whose human remains are buried and their— (b) the unique identifying number— (i) of the right to burial certificate; and (ii) for the burial site, application, deceased person and their human remains and the burial given under section 17 (Burial at cemetery—application); (c) the date the human remains are buried;
(d) either— (i) the unique identifying number of the facility site where the human remains of the deceased person are buried; or (ii) if the burial was a natural burial, the GPS location where the human remains of the deceased person are buried in the cemetery. (3) The register must include the following information for a cremation: (a) the name of the deceased person whose human remains are cremated and their— (b) the unique identifying number for the cremation; (c) the date the human remains are cremated. (4) The register must include the following information for the interment of cremated remains: (a) the name of the deceased person whose cremated remains are interred at the facility and their— (b) the unique identifying number— (i) of the right to interment certificate; and (ii) for the interment site, deceased person and cremated remains allocated under section 30 (Interment— (c) the date the cremated remains are interred.