Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Cemeteries and Crematoria Act 2003 - SECT 158

Exhumation licence required to move remains to another location

158. Exhumation licence required to move remains to another location



(1) If a person wishes to remove human remains from a place of interment and
re-inter those human remains at another location, the person must obtain an
exhumation licence.

(2) An exhumation licence is required under subsection (1) whether or not the
proposed re-interment is-

   (a)  within the public cemetery where the human remains are currently
        interred; or

   (b)  outside the public cemetery where the human remains are currently
        interred.

(3) This section does not apply to the removal or re-interment of cremated
human remains or body parts by-

   (a)  a cemetery trust in a public cemetery for which it is responsible; or

   (b)  the holder of a right of interment in accordance with this Act.