Regulations
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(1) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations, 1. prescribing documents, information and notices to be provided in the course of an application; 2. prescribing fees and requiring the payment of fees; 3. providing for the manner in which a deposit required for approval shall be applied or returned; 4. prescribing classes of cemeteries; 5. prescribing, for any notice required to be given under this Act, the type of notice and the manner in which it is to be given; 6. prescribing requirements and standards for the placing and spacing of interments, markers, fixtures, fences or other structures in a cemetery; 7. prescribing the minimum depth of coverage for in-ground burials; 8. prescribing the drains, sewers and other structures for the flow of water required in a cemetery; 9. governing mausolea, columbaria and other structures on or in a cemetery and establishing construction standards; 10. prescribing classes and types of licences; 11. governing the issue of licences and providing for the renewal of licences; 12. governing the term during which each class or type of licence is valid; 13. prescribing conditions that attach to any class or type of licence; 14. providing for posting of bonds and prescribing the amounts thereof; 15. providing for the forfeiture of posted bonds and for the distribution of the proceeds of forfeited bonds; 16. prescribing practices or actions that are evidence of incompetence or lack of honesty and integrity; 17. requiring the approval of the Registrar for promotional and sales material and prescribing the criteria for approval; 18. prescribing the type of promotional and sales material that requires the approval of the Registrar and providing for its submission to the Registrar; 19. governing and prohibiting the use of any promotional or sales material or any practice; 20. prescribing records and information to be kept by licensees; 21. providing for and requiring the submission of records and information and providing for access by agents of the Registrar to records and information; 22. prescribing the form of and conditions to be included in contracts for the sale of interment rights and cemetery supplies and services; 23. prescribing the information to be supplied to purchasers of interment rights and cemetery supplies and services; 24. prescribing the form of and information to be included in certificates of interment rights; 25. prescribing information to be provided to the public, any person or any class of persons and prescribing the manner of providing that information; 26. governing advertising and the manner of soliciting business; 27. requiring the use of any prescribed forms; 28. governing the use of contracts and certificates; 29. governing the uses to which owners may apply income from Care and Maintenance Funds; 30. prescribing records and information on trust funds to be provided to purchasers of interment rights and pre-need supplies or services; 31. governing the establishment, maintenance and operation of trust funds including the Care and Maintenance Fund and the Pre-need Assurance Fund; 32. governing the payment of money into and out of trust funds including the time within which and the circumstance under which payments are to be made; 33. prescribing fees that may be retained by trustees in respect of any type of trust fund; 34. governing the interment, disinterment, disposition and removal of human remains; 35. governing the preparation of disinterred human remains for transportation including prescribing the design and material of container to be used; 36. prescribing standards for the construction, installation, stabilization and preservation of markers and other cemetery supplies and requiring compliance with the standards; 37. governing the standards of care and maintenance required for a cemetery; 38. governing the procedure for approving by-laws made by owners and for revoking any by-laws made by owners; 39. prescribing the criteria that the Registrar shall use in approving by-laws; 40. governing the manner of conducting cremations and dealing with cremated remains; 41. prescribing amounts to be deposited, in trust, to compensate for disposing of cremated remains and regulating the handling of the trust money; 42. governing the location and ownership of cemeteries and crematoria; 43. governing prices and the range of prices that may be included on price lists filed with the Registrar by owners; 44. prescribing procedures to be followed in dealing with burial sites and requiring that they be followed; 45. governing arbitration in the absence of a site disposition agreement and requiring compliance with prescribed procedure; 46. prescribing the subject-matters to be contained in a site disposition agreement or arbitration settlement and requiring their inclusion; 47. exempting any person or class of persons, any cemetery or class of cemetery or anything or class of thing from any provision of this Act or the regulations; 48. prescribing conditions subsequent or precedent for a prescribed exemption and providing that an exemption may be subject to the Registrar being satisfied that it is not contrary to the public interest; 49. prescribing what constitutes notice in any provision where notice is required to be given; 50. governing the time for giving any notice for which a time is not set out in this Act and delegating to the Registrar power to extend any prescribed time; 51. prescribing anything that is referred to in this Act as being prescribed; 52. requiring the Registrar to maintain a public record of certain documents and information, prescribing the documents and information that must be kept in the public record, and governing the public record and access to it; 53. requiring the Registrar to publish certain documents and information, prescribing the documents and information that must be published, and governing their publication and access to them; 54. authorizing the Registrar to conduct quality assurance programs in relation to the administration of this Act or the regulations and to use information collected under this Act for the purpose of those programs. R.S.O. 1990, c. C.4, s. 76 (1); 2004, c. 19, s. 5 (2). Limitation (2) Any regulation may be general or specific or of limited application. R.S.O. 1990, c. C.4, s. 76 (2).