Burial and Cremation Act 1964

Regulations, savings, and repeals

59: Regulations

You could also call this:

"Rules for Cemeteries and Burial Grounds"

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The Governor-General can make rules for things like keeping cemeteries clean and safe. You need to follow these rules when you are in a cemetery or burial ground. The rules can also say what happens to old or broken monuments and tablets in cemeteries. The Governor-General can make rules about animals in cemeteries and burial grounds. The rules can say how closed cemeteries and burial grounds are managed. You can find out more about the rules in the Legislation Act 2019. The Governor-General can also make rules about how much money you have to pay for things like certificates or documents. The rules can say what happens if you break the rules, like having to pay a fine. The Governor-General can make rules about other things that are necessary for the law to work properly.

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58: Offences punishable on summary conviction, or

"Punishments for breaking burial and cremation rules"

60: Savings, or

"This law does not change or limit other laws or powers."

Part 9Regulations, savings, and repeals

59Regulations

The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, make regulations for all or any of the following purposes:
protecting public health and maintaining public decency in relation to cemeteries and burial grounds:
regulating the conduct of persons using or frequenting any cemetery or burial ground:
prohibiting or regulating the admission of animals to any cemetery or burial ground or Maori burial ground:
providing for the removal, after due notice to any known persons entitled to maintain them, of dilapidated or neglected monuments and tablets from cemeteries and burial grounds and from any closed cemetery or closed burial ground in respect of which a notice is not in force under section 45:
regulating the management of any closed cemetery or closed burial ground and any of the matters specified in paragraphs (a) to (c) in relation to any closed cemetery or closed burial ground:
prescribing the conditions subject to which and the manner in which the sanction of the Minister may be obtained for the dedication of a denominational burial ground under section 31:
prescribing forms for the purposes of this Act:
prescribing the fees to be paid in respect of any rights or privileges conferred by this Act or by any regulations made under this Act, or in respect of any certificates, documents, consents, approvals, or sanctions required thereunder and the person or authorities entitled to claim and receive such fees:
prescribing fines for the breach of any such regulation not exceeding 50 pounds in any case, and, where the breach is a continuing one, not exceeding 5 pounds for every day or part of a day during which the breach has continued:
providing for such matters as are contemplated by or necessary for giving full effect to the provisions of this Act and for the due administration thereof.

Regulations under this section are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

Compare

1908 No 19 s 79(1)

Notes

Section 59(1)(d): amended, on 1 January 1969, by section 2 of the Burial and Cremation Amendment Act 1968 (1968 No 71).
Section 59(2): inserted, on 28 October 2021, by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).