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35Assented to May 13, 2004ContentsPart 1 — Definitions 1DefinitionsPart 2 — General Duties 2Employees, agents and other persons 3Records to be keptPart 3 — Disposition of Human Remains and Cremated Remains 4Prohibitions on improper disposition of human remains 5Control of disposition of human remains or cremated remains 6Disposition to be in accordance with preference of deceased 7Disposition requirements for donated human remains 8Requirement for authorization before funeral services or disposition 9Protection from liability 10Operator or funeral provider may require visual identification of remains 11Containers for interment or cremation 12Presenting human remains for cremation 13Time frames for cremation 14Prohibition on sales, and offers of sale, of arrangements relating to cryonics and irradiation 15Prohibition of commission or bonusPart 4 — Exhumation, Disinterment and Removal of Human Remains 16Exhumation and disinterment 17Transportation of human remains after exhumation or disinterment 18Funeral provider required 19Prohibition on removal of remains 20Intervention by courtPart 5 — Establishment and Enlargement of Places of Interment 21Interpretation 22Crown land 23Certificate of public interest needed 24Application for certificate of public interest 25Registration in Land Title OfficePart 6 — Use or Transfer of Ownership or Interest in a Place of Interment 26Use of land restricted 27Sale, lease or encumbrance of land restrictedPart 7 — Care Funds 28Establishment of care fund 29Requirements on trustee of care funds 30Requirements for audit of care fund and maintenance of relevant records 31Transfer of care fund 32Use of care funds 33Seizure of care funds by creditors 34Liability of savings institution for payments from care funds 35Dealings with care funds if cemeteries abandoned or in financial difficulty 36Requirements for operators that do not have care fundPart 8 — Operation of Places of Interment 37Local government operations 38Board of trustees 39Requirements for bylaws 40Exemption or modification of bylaws 41Installation of memorials 42Subdivisions made by operator 43Rectification of errors relating to interment 44Prerequisites to cease selling rights of interment 45Notice required if war graves proposed to be affected 46Exemption of operator from liability and conferral of certain powersPart 9 — Prohibitions on Activities in Places of Interment and Crematoriums 47Prohibition on interference 48Prohibition on disturbances 49Prohibitions on being in certain places in cemeteries at certain timesPart 10 — Conversion and Closure of Places of Interment 50Definition 51Prerequisites for conversion of place of interment 52Granting approval to change use of place of interment 53Obligations on operator after approval grantedPart 11 — Application of Business Practices and Consumer Protection Act 54Interpretation 55Application of Part 9 — licences 56Application of Divisions 1 to 3 of Part 10 — inspections and enforcement 57Filing undertakings and orders in Supreme Court 58Application of Part 10 — administrative penalties and court proceedings 59Application of Part 11 — administration 60Application of Division 1 of Part 12 — reconsiderationsPart 12 — Offences and Penalties 61Offences 62Offence penalties 63Limitation periodPart 13 — Confidentiality, Service and Proof 64Confidentiality 65How to give or serve documents generally 66When documents are considered to have been received 67Certificate as proof of ministerial consent or appointmentPart 14 — Power to Make Regulations 68General power to make regulationsPart 15 — Transitional Provisions, Repeals and Consequential Amendments 69Definition 70Transitional — persons acting under former Act 71Transitional — certificates, permits and licences issued under former Act 72Transitional — enforcement 73Transitional — care funds 74Transitional — regulations 75–99Spent 100CommencementPart 1 — DefinitionsDefinitions1 In this Act:"administrative authority" means the Business Practices and Consumer Protection Authority established under the Business Practices and Consumer Protection Authority Act;"bereavement rites and ceremonies" means services for a
cremation of the individual;"care fund" means a fund for the care and maintenance of a
place of interment;"cemetery" means land that is set apart or used as a place of
buildings on the land;"cemetery services" means the operation of a place of
but does not include the sale of rights of interment;"certificate of public interest" means a certificate issued
granted;"columbarium" means a structure or building or an area in a
as free standing sections, niches for the inurnment of cremated remains;"compliance order" means an order issued by an inspector
56 (2) (c);"cremated remains" means human bone fragments left after
human remains are cremated;"crematorium" means a building or a part of a building used
incidental or ancillary to that purpose;"director" means a director under the Business Practices and Consumer Protection Act;"disinterment" means the removal, for the purpose of
permanent relocation, of(a)
human remains, and(b)
remains,from the lot in which the human remains are interred;"embalmer" means an individual who, prior to the disposition
of the human remains;"exhumation" means the exposure and removal of interred human
remains for the purposes of viewing or examination;"funeral contract" means a contract that provides for funeral
services for(a)
an infant who is stillborn, or(b)
a person who is deceasedat the time the contract is entered into;"funeral director" means an individual who, in the course of
business, does any of the following:(a)
negotiates or enters into funeral contracts;(b)
arranges, conducts or directs bereavement rites and ceremonies;(c)
arranges for the interment or cremation of human remains;(d)
remains;(e)
disinfecting, preservation or restoration of human remains;"funeral provider" means a person who carries on the business
of providing funeral services;"funeral services" means(a)
bereavement rites and ceremonies, and(d)
care, preparation and bereavement rites and ceremonies referred to in paragraphs (a) to (c),but does not include the sale of rights of interment or the disposition of human
remains by interment or cremation;"human remains" means(a)
a dead human body in any stage of decomposition, or(b)
a body of a stillborn infant in any stage of decomposition,but does not include cremated remains;"inspector" means the director or a person designated as an
inspector under section 176 of the Business Practices and Consumer Protection Act;"interment" means disposition by(a)
burial of human remains or cremated remains,(b)
entombment of human remains, or(c)
inurnment of cremated remains;"interment right holder" means a person who owns a right of
interment;"licence" means a licence issued under section 55
(2);"local government" means the council of a municipality, the
district;"lot" means a space that is(a)
in a place of interment, and(b)
remains under a right of intermentand includes a grave, crypt, niche or plot;"mausoleum" means a structure or building that
and niches for the inurnment of cremated remains;"memorial" means(a)
an inscription or ornamentation on a crypt or niche front,used to identify a lot or memorialize a deceased person or stillborn
child;"memorial dealer" means a person who(a)
offers for sale or sells memorials to the public, or(b)
makes memorials that are offered for sale or sold to the public,but does not provide funeral services or cemetery services;"operator" means a person or a board of trustees that owns or
operates a place of interment or a crematorium;"place of interment" means a cemetery, mausoleum or
columbarium;"preneed cemetery or funeral services contract" means a
alive at the time the contract is entered into;"register" means to register under the Land Title Act;"right of interment" means a right, in perpetuity, for the
interment of human remains or cremated remains, in a lot;"spouse" means a person who(a)
[Repealed 2011-25-320.](c)
at least 2 years immediately before the other person's death;"stillborn infant" means a product of conception that
underwent a stillbirth, as defined in the Vital Statistics Act;"undertaking" means a written undertaking from a person
accepted by the director under section 56 (2) (b).Part 2 — General DutiesEmployees, agents and other persons2 (1) Unless a contrary intention appears in this Act, if this Act imposes a duty or
in accordance with requirements established by regulation.Part 3 — Disposition of Human Remains and Cremated RemainsProhibitions on improper disposition of human remains4 Subject to the regulations, a person must not dispose of human remains at any
the ordinary business relationships between providers.Part 4 — Exhumation, Disinterment and Removal of Human RemainsExhumation and disinterment16 (1) In this section, "health region" means a region designated
deceased.Part 5 — Establishment and Enlargement of Places of IntermentInterpretation21 In this Part, "designated area" means the area within a
land described in the notice.Part 6 — Use or Transfer of Ownership or Interest in a Place of IntermentUse of land restricted26 (1) An operator may use a place of interment only(a)
operator.Sale, lease or encumbrance of land restricted27 (1) In this section:"applicant" means a person who submits an application under
(4);"owner" includes a creditor who has the legal authority to
of lands on which a place of interment is located.(2) An owner of a place of interment may do the following, in relation to the land
60.Part 7 — Care FundsEstablishment of care fund28 (1) A director may order an operator of a place of interment to establish a care
regulations.Part 8 — Operation of Places of IntermentLocal government operations37 (1) A municipality, a regional district or an improvement district may not own or
in the place of interment.Part 9 — Prohibitions on Activities in Places of Interment and CrematoriumsProhibition on interference47 A person must not, on land that the person knows or ought to know is a place of
ending 2 hours after the funeral service or interment.Part 10 — Conversion and Closure of Places of IntermentDefinition50 In this Part, "applicant" means an operator of a place of
cancelled.Part 11 — Application of Business Practices and Consumer Protection
Act.Part 12 — Offences and PenaltiesOffences61 (1) Section
after the time when the subject matter of the proceedings arose.Part 13 — Confidentiality, Service and ProofConfidentiality64 (1) A person who is engaged in the administration of this Act or the regulations and
director.Part 14 — Power to Make RegulationsGeneral power to make regulations68 (1) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations referred to in section 41
confer a discretion on a person.Part 15 — Transitional Provisions, Repeals and Consequential AmendmentsTransitional ProvisionsDefinition69 In this Part, "former Act" means the Cemetery and Funeral Services Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 45.Transitional — persons acting under former Act70 (1) On the date that the former Act is repealed, the designation of the registrar
force.Spent75–99 [Repeals and consequential amendments. Spent. 2004-35-75 to 99.]Commencement100 This Act comes into force by regulation of the Lieutenant Governor in
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