Canberra Public Cemeteries Regulations (Amendment) (ACT)

Canberra Public Cemeteries Regulations1 (Amendment)

Subordinate Law No. 18 of 19982

The Australian Capital Territory Executive makes the following Regulations under the Cemeteries  Act 1933.

Dated 28 May 1998.

brendan smyth

Minister

gary humphries

Minister

Commencement

1.  These Regulations commence on the day on which they are notified in the Gazette.

Principal Regulations

2.  In these Regulations, “Principal Regulations” means the Canberra Public Cemeteries Regulations.

Interpretation

3.  Regulation 2 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting the definition of “vault” and substituting the following definition:

“ ‘vault’ means a place of any description for the burial or entombment of a dead body, whether above or below ground, other than a grave.”.

Burials in vaults

4.  Regulation 23 of the Principal Regulations is amended by inserting in subregulation (1) “or entombed” after “buried”.

Number of burials in an allotment

5.  Regulation 24 of the Principal Regulations is amended by adding at the end the following subregulation:

1. This regulation applies only to a burial in a grave.”.

NOTES

Principal Regulations

1. Reprinted as at 31 October 1991. See also Acts No. 38, 1994 and No. 58, 1997.

Notification

1. Notified in the ACT Gazette on 28 May 1998.

©  Australian Capital Territory 1998