Public Health Regulation 2022
87Bodies in holding rooms
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87 Bodies in holding rooms
87 Bodies in holding rooms
(1) A person, other than a funeral director, must not keep a body in a holding room for more than 48 hours.
Maximum penalty—15 penalty units.
(2) The Secretary may approve, generally or in a particular case, of a body being kept in a holding room for more than 48 hours, subject to any conditions the Secretary considers appropriate.
(3) A person, other than a funeral director, who keeps a body in a holding room and who has reason to believe that not refrigerating the body will be a risk to public health must put the body in the refrigerated body storage facility of the holding room.
Maximum penalty (subsection (3))—15 penalty units.