Submission to the Independent Regulatory and Pricing Tribunal’s Review of Competition, Costs and Pricing in the Funeral Industry – Comments on draft report
In our initial submission, we argued that (1) the NSW funeral industry should have a primary regulator with jurisdiction over the providers of funerals, interments and cremations, and (2) that Cemeteries and Crematoria NSW (CCNSW) is the agency best placed to be that primary regulator. In practice, this would mean that the oversight function currently performed by the Better Regulation Division of the Department of Customer Service would move to CCNSW, with the former retaining its complaints handling function in relation to funerals, interments and cremations, while public health regulations would remain with NSW Health.