Botany Cemetery and Crematorium Act 1972 No 6
Current version for 17 July 2009 to date (accessed 25 May 2013 at 10:21)
12 Register of graves etc
(1) The cemetery trust shall, as soon as practicable after the
commencement of this Act:(a) compile a register containing the following particulars:(i) the name of each person whose remains were buried in a prescribed
grave or to whom a prescribed monument relates, and
(ii) the date of each such person’s
death,
(b) maintain the register at the office of the trust in the cemetery
or at such other location in the cemetery as the Minister may approve, so as
to be available for inspection by any interested person from time to time,
and
(c) furnish a certified copy of the register, together with all
relevant registers, books and other records held by the trust in relation to
the former Devonshire-street Cemetery, to the Mitchell Library, Sydney, where
they shall be maintained so as to be available for inspection by any
interested person from time to time.
(2) The cemetery trust shall, as soon as practicable after any
monument is or remains are removed pursuant to this Part:(a) include in the register compiled under subsection one of this
section a reference to the fact of that removal together with:(i) in the case of a monument removed pursuant to paragraph (a) of
subsection one of section ten of this Act or remains removed pursuant to
paragraph (c) of that subsection—a reference to the location of the
monument or remains,
(ii) in the case of a monument or remains removed pursuant to
subsection two of section eleven of this Act—a reference, if known by
the trust, to the location of the monument or remains, or
(iii) in the case of a monument removed pursuant to paragraph (b) of
subsection one of section ten of this Act or subsection two of that
section—a reference to such matters as the trust considers relevant,
and
(b) furnish a certified copy of any entry so included in the register
to the Mitchell Library, Sydney, for inclusion, if not already contained
therein, in the copy of the register furnished pursuant to subsection one of
this section.