Cemeteries (Amendment) Regulations 1998

i Cemeteries (Amendment) Regulations 1998 S.R. No. 98/1998 TABLE OF PROVISIONS Regulation Page 1. Objective 1 2. Authorising provision 1 3. Multiple burials in sealed graves 1 ═══════════════ NOTES 3 -- 1 of 4 -- 1 STATUTORY RULES 1998 S.R. No. 98/1998 Cemeteries Act 1958 Cemeteries (Amendment) Regulations 1998 The Governor in Council makes the following Regulations: Dated: 28 July 1998 Responsible Minister: ROB KNOWLES Minister for Health SHARNE BRYAN Clerk of the Executive Council 1. Objective The objective of these Regulations is to make further provision for the depth of burial of corpses in public cemeteries. 2. Authorising provision These Regulations are made under section 49 of the Cemeteries Act 1958. 3. Multiple burials in sealed graves At the end of regulation 7 of the Cemeteries Regulations 1988 1 insert— "(2) If an exclusive right of burial or interment in relation to a grave has been exercised at least once before the commencement of the Cemeteries (Amendment) Regulations 1998 and, in the most recent exercise of that right, the grave had been sealed with a stone or concrete slab and the sides of the grave -- 2 of 4 -- S.R. No. 98/1998 Cemeteries (Amendment) Regulations 1998 2 above the level of the stone or slab had been lined with brick, stone, concrete or a similar material, that right may be exercised to bury or inter another corpse in the grave without complying with regulation 6 if— (a) there is at least 300 mm of compacted earth between the coffin and the normal level of the ground or, if a coffin is not used, the corpse and the normal level of the ground; and (b) the grave is sealed with a substantial slab of stone, concrete, or similar material as soon as practicable after the burial or interment.". ═══════════════ r. 3 -- 3 of 4 -- S.R. No. 98/1998 Cemeteries (Amendment) Regulations 1998 3 NOTES 1 Reg. 3: S.R. No. 265/1988. Reprinted to S.R. No. 162/1994 and subsequently amended by S.R. No. 48/1996. Notes -- 4 of 4 --