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Do perpetual interment rights granted before the new Act continue to be perpetual, or might they become renewable?

If there is a lack of clarity about who holds an interment right and a dispute occurs, is the cemetery operator obliged to make a decision?

If the original applicants are deceased, who is entitled to authorise additional interments?

Who can authorise the transfer of cremated remains from their existing position (e.g. in a columbarium niche) to another location within the cemetery?

Can a person who is the interment right holder for a family vault or mausoleum (for multiple interments) stipulate who is able to be interred within it and in which part of the...

Is it a legal requirement that bodies in below ground brick lined vaults have to be embalmed as we do it for our above ground mausoleum (in NSW).?

By default, does this automatically extend the term to 99 years?

How long can the term of a renewable interment right be?

 Are cemetery operators required to offer renewable interment right positions?

If there is no estate, who may legitimately claim the right of interment?

 If an interment right is purchased by an executor, out of the proceeds of an estate, to enable interment to occur, in whose name should the right be issued in?

Does the Cemeteries and Crematoria Act 2013 apply to private burial sites (e.g. on a farm), as distinct from private cemetery operators?