General Cemetery Act 2025

1. Introductory Text

2. Part 1 Preliminary

   1. 1. Citation and commencement

   2. 2. Interpretation

3. Part 2 Regulation and management of the Company

   1. 3. Adoption of model articles and Company name

   2. 4. Effect of registration

   3. 5. Amendment of the 1832 Act relating to the Company

   4. 6. Repeals relating to the Company

4. Part 3 Transfer of cemetery to the Charitable Transferee

   1. 7. The primary objects of the Charitable Transferee

   2. 8. Transfer of ownership of the cemetery

   3. 9. The Charitable Transferee’s power to manage the cemetery

   4. 10. Easements and other rights

   5. 11. Leases

   6. 12. Further transfers of the cemetery

   7. 13. Appointed day

5. Part 4 Regulation and management of the cemetery

   1. 14. Byelaws

   2. 15. Procedure for making byelaws

   3. 16. Modification of byelaw-making procedure for CIO

   4. 17. Power to extinguish rights of burial

   5. 18. Power to disturb human remains

   6. 19. Protection for certain graves

   7. 20. Notices given under this Act

   8. 21. Memorials

   9. 22. Records

   10. 23. Amendments and repeals relating to the cemetery

6. Schedules

   1. Schedule 1

      Amendments of the 1832 Act

      1. 1. The 1832 Act is amended as follows.

      2. Part 1 Amendment relating to the Company

         1. 2. In section 1 omit the words from “, and by...

      3. Part 2 Amendments relating to the cemetery

         1. 3. In section 21, at the end of the section insert...

         2. 4. In section 22, after “according to the Established Form of...

         3. 5. In section 25, for “and under the Direction of the...

         4. 6. In section 35, for “shall be conclusive Evidence of the...

         5. 7. For section 42 substitute— Consecration, and setting apart for particular...

         6. 8. For section 43 substitute— Grant of burial rights and rights...

         7. 9. For section 45 substitute— Form and register of grants of...

         8. 10. For section 46 substitute— Disposal of exclusive right of burial...

         9. 11. In section 49— (a) the existing text becomes subsection (1);...

         10. 12. In section 50, for “of Lead, or otherwise enclosed in...

         11. 13. In section 51, for the words from “and Copies or...

         12. 14. In section 119, for “Commissioners of Sewers for the City...

   2. Schedule 2

      Repeals

      1. Part 1 Repeals relating to the Company

      2. Part 2 Repeals relating to the cemetery