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Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act, 1995 (Act No. 34 of 1995)

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Regulations on Exhumation, Reburial or Symbolic Burial of Deceased Victims

5C. Provision of coffin and funeral items and accessories

 

(1) Subject to subregulation (2), the Department must, provide a coffin, funeral items and accessories, not exceeding the amount of R12 000,00 for the purposes of a hand-over ceremony.

 

(2) The Department is not obliged to provide a coffin—
(a) if the relatives of a deceased victim have provided a coffin;
(b) if a coffin has been donated by any person or institution; or
(c) subject to subregulation (3), if—
(i) burial support is available in respect of a deceased victim in terms of section 5 of the Military Veterans Act, 2011 (Act No. 18 of 2011); or
(ii) funeral benefits are payable in respect of a deceased victim in terms of section 6F of the Special Pensions Act, (Act No. 69 of 1996).

 

(3) The Department may, notwithstanding the availability of burial support or the entitlement to funeral benefits referred to in subregulation (2)(c), provide a coffin for the purposes of a hand-over ceremony, if it appears to the Fund Administrator that the relatives of the deceased victim are unable, for whatever reason, to provide a coffin timeously for the purposes of the ceremony.

 

(4) The Department must liaise with the relatives of a deceased victim on the coffin to be provided.

 

[Regulation 5C inserted by regulation 7 of Notice No. R. 1305 of 2016]