National Parks Cemetery Regulations (SOR/83-677)
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National Parks Cemetery Regulations
SOR/83-677
Registration 1983-08-24
Regulations Respecting the Control and Management of Cemeteries in the National Parks of Canada
P.C. 1983-2584 1983-08-24
His Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of the Environment, pursuant to subsection 7(1) of the National Parks Act, is pleased hereby to revoke the National Parks Cemetery Regulations, C.R.C., c. 1117, and to make the annexed Regulations respecting the control and management of cemeteries in the National Parks of Canada, in substitution therefor.
SHORT TITLE
1. These Regulations may be cited as the National Parks Cemetery Regulations.
INTERPRETATION
2. In these Regulations,
- “ashes”
“ashes” means cremated human remains; (cendres)
- “available”
“available”, in respect of a grave, means that a certificate has not been issued with respect to that grave; (disponible)
- “Banff Cemetery”
“Banff Cemetery”[Revoked, SOR/90-235]
- “Cape Breton Highlands Cemetery”
“Cape Breton Highlands Cemetery”[Revoked, SOR/90-32, s. 1]
- “Cavendish Cemetery”
“Cavendish Cemetery”[Revoked, SOR/90-32, s. 1]
- “cemetery”
“cemetery” means a cemetery to which these Regulations apply; (cimetière)
- “certificate”
“certificate” means a certificate issued pursuant to section 8; (certificat)
- “Field Cemetery”
“Field Cemetery” means that part of Yoho National Park so designated and shown on a plan of survey of record in the Canada Lands Surveys Records of the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, Ottawa, as number 20590; (cimetière de Field)
- “grave”
“grave” means an excavation in a cemetery plot for the burial of human remains or ashes; (tombe)
- “holder of a certificate”
“holder of a certificate” means a person to whom a certificate is issued and, where that person is deceased, means the estate of that person; (titulaire d’un certificat)
- “immediate next of kin”
“immediate next of kin”[Revoked, SOR/90-32, s. 1(E)]
- “indigent”
“indigent” means a person who
(a) before his death was a permanent resident of one or more parks for a period of at least 25 years in the aggregate and at some time lived in the park where the burial is to take place, or
(b) at the time of his death was a permanent resident of the park where the burial is to take place and whose financial means are not sufficient to cover the fees for burial; (personne indigente)
- “Jasper Park Cemetery”
“Jasper Park Cemetery”[Repealed, SOR/2010-23, s. 7]
- “marker”
“marker” means a memorial of metal, stone or other similar material placed at the level of the surrounding ground at the foot of a grave; (dalle tombale)
- “monument”
“monument” means a memorial of stone, marble or other similar material placed above the level of the surrounding ground at the head of a grave or plot; (monument)
- “Mountain View Cemetery”
“Mountain View Cemetery”[Revoked, SOR/90-235]
- “next of kin”
“next of kin” means the spouse and children of a deceased person; (plus proche parent)
- “park”
“park”[Repealed, SOR/96-477, s. 1]
- “perpetual care”
“perpetual care” means the preservation, improvement, embellishment and maintenance in perpetuity of a grave in a cemetery; (entretien permanent)
- “plot”
“plot” means a numbered lot shown on the plan of survey of a cemetery, containing one or more graves; (terrain)
- “Superintendent”
“Superintendent”[Revoked, SOR/90-32, s. 1]
- “tablet”
“tablet” means a memorial of metal, stone or other similar material placed at the level of the surrounding ground at the head of a grave; (plaque)
- “Waterton Cemetery”
“Waterton Cemetery” means that part of Waterton Lakes National Park so designated and shown on a plan of survey of record in the Canada Lands Surveys Records of the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, Ottawa, as number 42297. (cimetière de Waterton)
- “Waterton Park Cemetery”
“Waterton Park Cemetery”[Revoked, SOR/90-32, s. 1]
- SOR/90-32, s. 1;
- SOR/90-235;
- SOR/96-477, s. 1;
- SOR/2010-23, s. 7.
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