Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

CEMETERIES AND CREMATORIA ACT 2003 (NO. 11 OF 2003) - SCHEDULE 1

Schedule 1     Consequential amendments

(see s 63)

Part 1.1     Land (Planning and Environment) Act 1991

[1.1]     Schedule 1, item 5

substitute

5

cemetery or burial ground

1     to provide for the interment or cremation of human remains and the interment of the ashes of human remains

[1.2]     Dictionary, new definition of cemetery

insert

"cemetery" includes crematorium.

Part 1.2     Coroners Act 1997

[1.3]     Section 12

substitute

12     General functions and jurisdiction of coroner

    (1)     A coroner has the functions and jurisdiction given by this Act or any other Territory law.

    (2)     Except as otherwise provided by this Act, a coroner also has all the functions and jurisdiction that were vested in a coroner immediately before the commencement of the Coroners Act 1956 .