AGY-7197 | Cemeteries and Crematoria NSW

Full description

Cemeteries and Crematoria NSW was established as a statutory body under the Cemeteries and Crematoria Act 2013 on 27 November 2013. (1)

It was created to support and regulate cemetery and crematoria operators in NSW and provide information on burial and cremation options to the public. The agency was created in response to the need for a coordinated, strategic approach to providing interment services across NSW. (2)

The specific functions of Cemeteries and Crematoria NSW were to assess current and future interment needs and develop planning strategies for cemetery space to meet those needs; to provide advice or make recommendations to the Minister in relation to the sustainable use of cemetery and crematorium space and capacity; to promote environmentally sustainable practices in the interment industry; to develop, approve and promote codes of practice for cemeteries and crematoria and report on adoption of those codes by the interment industry; to provide advice or make recommendations to the Minister on the establishment, implementation or alteration of interment industry schemes; to regulate the provision of services in relation to interment matters that are subject to interment industry schemes; to keep under review the policies, operating procedures and activities of the interment industry, including cemeteries, crematoria, providers of funeral goods and services, and operators of funeral funds and to collect information and carry out research as is necessary to exercise its functions. (3)

Endnotes
1. Cemeteries and Crematoria Act 2013 (Act No.105, 2013) s.6; NSW Government Gazette, 6 December 2013, p.5646.
2. https://www.industry.nsw.gov.au/cemeteries-crematoria/about-us (accessed 7/11/2022).
3. Cemeteries and Crematoria Act 2013 s.12.