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(j) fees or charges payable in relation to the burial of any human remains;
(k) such other matters as, in the opinion of the Authority, are necessary for the proper regulation and control of cemeteries in the public interest.
(2) In addition to the purposes specified in subsection (1), the Authority may in relation to any public cemetery make regulations prescribing or providing for
(a) the lay-out and use of any such cemetery or any part thereof and
matters ancillary thereto;
(b) the exhumation of human remains from any grave and the disposal of
the same in a decent manner;
(c) the size of any monument or enclosure over or round any grave, vault
or urn;
(d) the orderly and decent conduct of any burial, exhumation or removal of any human remains and the performance of any ceremony, rite, custom or religious practice connected therewith in any such cemetery or in any part of any such cemetery and the orderly and decent conduct of persons resorting to any such cemetery;
(e) fees or charges payable in relation to the setting up of any monument or enclosure over or round any grave, and construction of any vault or urn and matters connected therewith.
(Amended 48 of 1969 s. 8; 49 of 1972 s. 2)
Public cemetery and Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery rules
117. (1) The Director of Urban Services, or such other public officer as the Governor may authorize by notice published in the Gazette, may in relation to any public cemetery or any Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery in the Urban Council area, and the Director of Regional Services or such other public officer as the Governor may so authorize may in relation to any public cemetery or any Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery in the Regional Council area, from time to time make rules for the better control, direction and information of persons resorting thereto: (Amended 69 of 1976 s. 4; L.N. 67/85; 10 of 1986 s. 15)
Provided that such rules shall not be inconsistent with any of the provisions of this Ordinance or of any regulations made under section 116.
(2) Any person who fails to comply with any rule made under subsec- tion (1) shall be guilty of an offence.
Prohibition of unauthorized burials and exhumations
118. (1) Any person who, without the permission in writing of the Authority, buries any human remains, or deposits any urn or other receptacle containing any human remains, or scatters the ashes of any human remains after cremation, otherwise than in a cemetery, shall be guilty of an offence.