Cemeteries (Amendment) Regulations 1998 (Vic)

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

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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 19881 insert—

"(2) If an exclusive right of burial or interment in

relation to a grave has been exercised at least 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

once before the commencement of the

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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.".

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Cemeteries (Amendment) Regulations 1998

S.R. No. 98/1998 Notes