NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR
REGULATION 106/24

Provincial Health Authority Regulations (Amendment)
under the
Provincial Health Authority Act
(O.C. 2024-106)

(Filed December 27, 2024)

Under the authority of section 36 of the Provincial Health Authority Act, the Lieutenant-Governor in Council makes the following regulations.

Dated at St. John’s, December 24, 2024.

Krista Quinlan
Clerk of the Executive Council

REGULATIONS

Analysis

           1.    S.8.1 Added

                  Unclaimed remains

           2.    Commencement

NLR 20/23

       1.  The Provincial Health Authority Regulations are amended by adding immediately after section 8 the following:

Unclaimed remains

     8.1 (1) For the purposes of paragraph 2(q) of the Act, unclaimed remains means the body of a deceased person that

            (a)  has not been cremated or buried; and

           (b)  has not been claimed.

           (2)  For the purposes of the Act and these regulations, a body of a deceased person is considered to be claimed where,

            (a)  a person other than the authority has arranged for the final disposition of the body of the deceased person; and

           (b)  the authority has received confirmation from a funeral home that it will accept the body of the deceased person.

           (3)  In order to determine whether a body of a deceased person is unclaimed remains, the authority shall, for the purposes of trying to locate a person who may be entitled to claim the body of the deceased person, attempt to contact the following persons:

            (a)  the spouse, parents, children, siblings or other known relatives of the deceased person; and  

           (b)  any other person who may be entitled to claim the body of the deceased person.

           (4)  Where the authority is unable to locate any of the persons referred to in subsection (3) within 14 days of receipt of the body of the deceased person, the authority shall provide notice of the authority's receipt of the body of the deceased person on the authority's website, in the form and manner set by the minister for a period of 5 days.

           (5)  Where the body of the deceased person is not claimed in accordance with subsections (3) and (4) but the authority is of the opinion that a person may claim the body of the deceased person, the authority may delay making the determination that the body of the deceased person is unclaimed remains for the period that the authority determines necessary to allow the body of the deceased person to be claimed. 

           (6)  The authority may dispose of unclaimed remains by one of the following methods:

            (a)  burial;

           (b)  cremation; or

            (c)  another method of final disposition the authority considers appropriate in the circumstances.

Commencement

       2.  These regulations come into force on January 1, 2025.

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