57Use of fire in a public cemetery

57 Use of fire in a public cemetery

(1) A person, other than a person specified in subregulation (2), must not light or use fire in a public cemetery without the prior approval of the cemetery trust in accordance with regulation 48.

Penalty: 10 penalty units.

(2) For the purposes of subregulation (1), the following persons are specified—

(a) the cemetery trust when carrying out its functions;

(b) an employee, agent or contractor of the cemetery trust acting in the course of that employment, agency, or contract;

(c) a volunteer or other person authorised by the cemetery trust to carry out a function in the public cemetery when acting in accordance with that authorisation.

(3) A person who uses fire in a public cemetery in association with ceremonies for the interment, cremation or commemoration of the dead must not, without the prior approval of the cemetery trust in accordance with regulation 48, leave that fire unattended.

Penalty: 10 penalty units.

(4) Nothing in these Regulations permits the lighting or use of fire—

(a) in an area that is subject to a declaration of a day or partial day of total fire ban under the Country Fire Authority Act 1958; or

(b) in contravention of any Act.