8Notification requirements concerning expiry of renewable interment rights

8 Notification requirements concerning expiry of renewable interment rights

8 Notification requirements concerning expiry of renewable interment rights

(1) For the Act, section 54(6), at least 12 months before a renewable interment right granted by the cemetery operator is due to expire, the cemetery operator must take the steps under subsection (2) to give the written notice referred to—

(a) the holder or holders of the renewable interment right, and

(b) any person shown in the register as a secondary contact.

(2) The cemetery operator must take the following steps to give the notice—

(a) send the notice by post and email, if an email address has been given to the cemetery operator for contact purposes, with a request for the intended recipient to acknowledge receipt of the notice,

(b) if the cemetery operator does not receive a response to the notice given in accordance with paragraph (a) within 3 months—attempt to contact the intended recipient by telephone and send the notice again by post and email with a request to acknowledge receipt,

(c) if the cemetery operator does not receive a response to the notice given in accordance with paragraph (b) within 3 months—repeat the steps set out in paragraph (b),

(d) if the cemetery operator does not receive a response to the notice given in accordance with paragraph (c) within 3 months—repeat the steps set out in paragraph (b),

(e) if the cemetery operator does not receive a response to the notice given in accordance with paragraph (d) within 3 months—

(i) publish the notice in all of the following newspapers—

(A) a local newspaper,

(B) a newspaper circulating throughout the State,

(C) if a person to whom notice is required to be given under the Act, section 54(6), is an Aboriginal person—in the Koori Mail or another newspaper widely read in Aboriginal communities in the State, and

(ii) if the cemetery operator has a website—publish the notice on the cemetery operator’s website, and

(iii) if the cemetery operator does not have a website but has a social media account—on the cemetery operator’s social media account.