6Definitions
(1)
In this Act unless the context or subject-matter
otherwise indicates or requires:
general
crematorium lease means a lease referred to in section
8B.
general
crematorium site means the land described in Schedule
2.
Joint
Committee means the Joint Committee of Necropolis Trustees
constituted by section 20.
Necropolis means the lands which
have been heretofore and shall be hereafter dedicated as a cemetery for
burying the dead at Haslem’s Creek and Rookwood.
quarter means the period beginning 1
January, 1 April, 1 July or 1 October in each year.
Regulation means a regulation made
under this Act.
reserve
trust, in relation to land set aside for use as a cemetery
or crematorium under this Act, means the reserve trust that, under section 92
of the Crown Lands Act
1989, is constituted and appointed as trustee of that
land.
(2)
With respect to the general crematorium site, a
reference in this Act to the burial or interment of the dead shall, except to
the extent that the context or subject-matter otherwise indicates or requires,
be construed as including a reference to the cremation of dead bodies and the
disposition of the ashes.
(3)
In this Act:
(a)
a reference to a function includes a reference to
a power, authority and duty, and
(b)
a reference to the exercise of a function
includes, where the function is a duty, a reference to the performance of the
duty.
(4)
Notes included in this Act do not form part of
this Act.
s 6: Am 1973 No 4,
sec 2 (a); 1986 No 145, Sch 2 (2); 2004 No 108, Sch 2
[5]–[7].