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Burial and Cremation Act 1964

Cremation

40: Crematorium bylaws

You could also call this:

"Rules for Crematoriums"

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You can make rules for a crematorium. These rules are called bylaws. They help keep the crematorium nice and safe. You can make bylaws for things like looking after the crematorium and its buildings. You can also make rules to stop the crematorium from being damaged. Rules can be made for how cremations are done and how people behave when they are there. You can decide when cremations can happen and how much people pay for them. You can also make rules about who can visit the crematorium and when. If someone else owns or controls the crematorium, they can make these rules too. They have to follow the same rules as the people in charge of a cemetery, as stated in section 30.

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Part 5Cremation

40Crematorium bylaws

  1. In addition to the power to make bylaws conferred by section 16, but subject to the provisions of subsection (2) of that section and of section 17, every local authority may make bylaws, with respect to any crematorium under its control, for all or any of the following purposes:

  2. maintaining, preserving, and embellishing the crematorium, and any building erected or used for the preservation of the ashes of the dead:
    1. protecting the crematorium and any such building from destruction or damage:
      1. regulating the manner and method in which cremations shall be carried out and the conduct of persons attending at such cremations or using or visiting the crematorium grounds:
        1. controlling or restricting the times at which or between which cremations may be carried out:
          1. regulating the extent to which the public may have access to the crematorium and to any garden and grounds belonging thereto:
            1. fixing a scale of fees payable for cremation, and for the use of any building provided for the preservation of the ashes of the dead.

              1. The powers conferred on a local authority by subsection (1) may be exercised by any person or body of persons owning or exercising control over a crematorium with respect to that crematorium, subject to the same conditions and requirements as are imposed by section 30 on the trustees of a cemetery.

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              • 1908 No 19 s 47