New Zealand Legislation: Acts

150 Misconduct in respect of human remains

• Every one is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years who—

  • (a) neglects to perform any duty imposed on him by law or undertaken by him with reference to the burial or cremation of any dead human body or human remains; or

  • (b) improperly or indecently interferes with or offers any indignity to any dead human body or human remains, whether buried or not.

  Compare: 1908 No 32 s 165