Institutional Burials Act 2022
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Chapter 2 Identification Programme | ||
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Promotion measures and information campaign: Identification Programme | ||
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42. (1) A Director shall, in accordance with subsection (2), take such measures, including by holding a public information campaign, as he or she considers appropriate to promote awareness among members of the public, and in particular, members of the public who may have a connection with the institution to which an Identification Programme relates, of the following: | ||
(a) the fact that the Programme is to be undertaken and the purpose of the Programme; | ||
(b) that an eligible family member may, within such period of time as shall be specified by the Director in the measure concerned, notify the Director of— | ||
(i) his or her interest in participating in the Programme, | ||
(ii) in accordance with section 43 , his or her objection to the participation of another eligible family member in the Programme, or | ||
(iii) his or her interest in being the person to whom any identified recovered human remains are returned in accordance with section 57 and his or her wishes as to the final arrangements for those remains should he or she die or become incapacitated before such arrangements are made; | ||
(c) that where an eligible family member notifies the Director of his or her interest in participating in the Programme in accordance with paragraph (b)(i) ,he or she may also, at the same time, furnish a letter of non-objection to his or her participation from another eligible family member or members who would otherwise, in accordance with section 43 or 44 , be entitled to object to his or her participation; | ||
(d) that a person who is a spouse or civil partner of a person whom the spouse or civil partner believes, on reasonable grounds, is buried in the principal burial land or ancillary burial land concerned, may, within such period of time as shall be specified by the Director in the measure concerned, notify the Director of his or her interest in being the person to whom any identified recovered human remains are returned in accordance with section 57 and his or her wishes as to the final arrangements for those remains should he or she die or become incapacitated before such arrangements are made; | ||
(e) how a notification referred to in paragraph (b) or (d) can be made; | ||
(f) the evidence, prescribed under section 80 , to be provided to enable the Director to satisfy himself or herself that a person is an eligible family member or a person referred to in paragraph (d) in respect of a deceased person. | ||
(2) A Director shall undertake the measures referred to in subsection (1) — | ||
(a) where an order made under subsection (1) of section 7 specifies that, in accordance with paragraph (b) of that subsection, the functions of a Director includes carrying out an Identification Programme, as soon as practicable after his or her appointment under section 12 , and | ||
(b) where an order subsequently made under section 7 (6) specifies that the functions of a Director includes carrying out an Identification Programme, as soon as practicable after the making of the order. |