Victorian Numbered Regulations

CEMETERIES AND CREMATORIA REGULATIONS 2005 (SR NO 76 OF 2005) - REG 23

    (1)     A person who inters bodily remains or body parts in a mausoleum in a public cemetery must ensure that the bodily remains or body parts are interred in a coffin, container or receptacle—

        (a)     that is clean and hygienic; and

        (b)     that is constructed of wood, metal or other substantial material; and

        (c)     from which neither offensive or noxious emissions nor matter from the bodily remains or body parts will escape.

Penalty:     10 penalty units.

    (2)     A person who inters bodily remains or body parts in a mausoleum in a public cemetery must ensure that the bodily remains or body parts are interred—

        (a)     in a soundly constructed chamber; and

        (b)     in a chamber in which the number of interments has not exceeded the number of interments for which the chamber was designed.

Penalty:     10 penalty units.