Queensland Cemetery Burial, Cremation and Exhumation Record

Council cemetery and crematorium records about a deceased person and the people arranging the disposal of the remains: burial and interment applications and bookings, rights (grants) of burial or interment, ashes and niche placements, exhumation applications and approvals, and cremation records. Cremation records follow the Cremations Act 2003 (Qld): an application for a permission to cremate by a close relative, personal representative or their agent (s 6), accompanied by a cause of death certificate and a cremation risk certificate, and the crematorium's record of particulars and permissions kept for 15 years (s 14). A populated record names the deceased (name, date of death, age, cause or place of death), the applicant, next of kin, right holder or funeral director and their relationship to the deceased, and the plot, niche or right number and burial, cremation or exhumation date. Published burial search and grave locator listings, fee schedules, cemetery policies and the statute text are decoys. The statutory basis for burial and exhumation records is council local law and is not asserted here.

Type: regex
Engine: boost_regex
Confidence: medium
Confidence justification: Medium: permission to cremate and cremation risk certificate are Cremations Act 2003 terms and the burial and exhumation anchors are distinctive, but the same words fill council cemetery pages, fee schedules, local laws and public burial search tools, so enforce tiers need populated deceased, kin or plot fields and exclude listing and guidance wording. Right-of-interment, plot and approved-form numbers are council-specific and unverified, so values are loose and digit-gated. 85/75 are heuristic evidence tiers, not measured accuracy; test values are synthetic.
Jurisdictions: au, au-qld
Regulations: Cremations Act 2003 (Qld), Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld), Public Records Act 2023 (Qld)
Frameworks: QGISCF
Data categories: pii, health, government
Scope: narrow
Risk rating: 6
Platform compatibility: Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Unsupported, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

(?i)\b(?:(?:application\s+for\s+(?:a\s+)?)?permission\s+to\s+cremate|cremation\s+(?:risk\s+certificates?|applications?|permits?|registers?|records?)|(?:right|grant)\s+of\s+(?:burial|interment)|interment\s+(?:rights?|applications?|records?|registers?|orders?|authority)|burial\s+(?:registers?|records?|applications?|permits?|bookings?|authority)|exhumation\s+(?:applications?|permits?|licences?|orders?|approvals?|records?|requests?)|application\s+(?:to|for)\s+(?:exhume|exhumation)|(?:ashes|niche|columbarium)\s+(?:placement|interment)\s+(?:applications?|records?))\b

Corroborative evidence keywords

cemetery, crematorium, funeral director, headstone, memorial, Cremations Act 2003, independent doctor, coroner, reinterment, cause of death certificate

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

Exhumation application - Lawn Cemetery Deceased: Harold Teston Date of death: 03/06/1987 Section: B, Row 7, Plot 112 Applicant: Margaret Staffson Relationship to deceased: daughter Funeral director: Riverbend Funerals Reason: reinterment in the family grave at Charters Towers — Exhumation application with deceased, date of death, plot, applicant, relationship and funeral director (85 tier)
Application for permission to cremate Full name of deceased: Doreen Teston Age at death: 84 Cause of death: metastatic breast cancer Applicant: Keith Teston, close relative (son) Cause of death certificate and cremation risk certificate attached; independent doctor to review. — Cremations Act s 6 application with deceased, cause of death and applicant (85 tier)
Right of interment granted. Right no: RI-20417. Holder to be confirmed. — Right of interment with a populated right number only (75 tier)
Burial booking confirmed for Tuesday. Date of burial: 29/09/2026 Next of kin: Colin Staffson — Burial booking with burial date and next of kin (75 tier)

Should not match

Burial search results - Toowong Cemetery. Name: Harold Teston, Date of death: 03/06/1987, Section 12, Row 4, Plot 9. Print map. Use the grave locator to find other burial records. — Public burial search / grave locator listing (listing exclusion)
5 Permission required for cremation. A person must not cremate human remains unless the person has a permission to cremate the remains, in the approved form. Maximum penalty - 140 penalty units. — Cremations Act statute text (statute exclusion)
Exhumation application form - blank template Deceased: ____________ Date of death: ____________ Applicant: ____________ Relationship to deceased: ____________ Plot number: ____________ — Blank exhumation form
Cemetery fees and charges 2026-27: right of burial (lawn) $2,450; interment fee $1,380; exhumation application fee $3,100; niche placement $620. — Council fee schedule (fees exclusion)
Council's cemetery team processed 312 burial applications and 41 exhumation requests last year, the annual report shows. — Aggregate statistics (65 only)

Known false positives

Public burial search, grave locator and family history pages list the deceased, date of death and plot. Mitigation: A listing exclusion (burial/grave/cemetery/deceased search, locator, finder, search results, family history, genealogy) suppresses them at every enforce tier. Burial locations are published in practice; the sensitive parts are applicants, next of kin, cause of death and exhumation reasons.
Cemetery fee schedules, local laws, policies and the Cremations Act text. Mitigation: A guidance/statute exclusion suppresses fee schedules, penalty wording, the legislation site and policy wording; these also lack populated fields.
Funeral director invoices and death notices. Mitigation: A death notice with no record primary stays below 65; a funeral director's cremation application file is in scope.