Cemeteries (Amendment) Act 1987 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Cemeteries (Amendment) Ordinance 1987

No. 6 of 1987

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910.

Dated 26 February 1987.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. SCHOLES

Minister of State for Territories

An Ordinance to amend the Cemeteries Ordinance 1933

Short title

1.  This Ordinance may be cited as the Cemeteries (Amendment) Ordinance 1987.1

Trustee of cemeteries

2.  Section 6 of the Cemeteries Ordinance 19332 is amended—

(a)by omitting from sub-section (1) all the words from and including “appoint” (first occurring) to and including “less” and substituting—

“appoint as—

(a)trustees of all public cemeteries; or

(b)trustees of a private burial ground,

not less”;

(b)by inserting after sub-section (3) the following sub-sections:

“(3A)  The corporate name of the trustees referred to in paragraph (1) (a) shall be The Trustees of the Canberra Public Cemeteries.

“(3B)  The Minister shall determine the corporate name of the trustees of a private burial ground.”;

(c)by omitting from sub-section (4) “, as determined by the Minister,”;

(d)by inserting in sub-section (6) “public” before “cemetery” (first occurring);

(e)by omitting from sub-section (6) “trustee of that cemetery” and substituting “a trustee referred to in paragraph (1) (a)”;

(f)by inserting in sub-section (7) “public” before “cemetery” (first occurring);

(g)by omitting from sub-section (7) “trustee of the cemetery” and substituting “a trustee referred to in paragraph (1) (a)”;

(h)by inserting in sub-section (8) “public” before “cemetery” (first occurring);

(j)by omitting from sub-section (8) “trustee of that cemetery” and substituting “a trustee referred to in paragraph (1) (a)”; and

(k)by adding at the end the following sub-section:

“(9)  A trustee referred to in paragraph (1) (a) shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be taken to be a trustee of each public cemetery.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 3 March 1987.

2. No. 29, 1933 as amended by Nos. 25 and 35, 1938; No. 18, 1942; No. 21, 1959; No. 13, 1961; Nos. 9 and 19, 1966; No. 17, 1975; No. 64, 1977; Nos. 10 and 11, 1978; No. 47, 1983; No. 56, 1985.