The Registrar has ordered a cemetery operator in Toronto to immediately cease sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The order was issued as a result of the cemetery operator\u2019s non-compliance with the law to establish a care and maintenance trust fund and financial reporting requirements. (This order relates to new burials and sales only — and not to prepaid arrangements. Burials will continue for anyone who had interment rights or a reservation.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Registrar, of the Funeral, Burial and Cremation Service Act, 2002<\/em> (FBCSA), ordered that the operator of Husiatner Klaus Beth Israel Cemetery cease the following activities:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bereavement Authority of Ontario (BAO) records indicate that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n A care and maintenance fund is a trust fund that helps ensure the long-term upkeep of a cemetery. A cemetery operator is required to make contributions to the fund from the sale of in-ground graves, crypts, tombs, niches and scattering rights. The fund pays for maintenance costs after a cemetery has stopped making sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The order will remain in place until further notice. If charges are laid by the Registrar, and convictions follow, potential penalties for an individual for each offence under the FBCSA may be a fine of not more than $50,000, imprisonment for a term of not more than two years less a day, or both. A corporation convicted of an offence under the FBCSA is liable to a fine of not more than $250,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n About the BAO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Bereavement Authority of Ontario (BAO) is a government delegated authority and not-for-profit corporation administering provisions of the Funeral, Burial and Cremation Services Act<\/em>, 2002 (FBCSA) on behalf of the Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery. Responsible for protection of the public interest, the BAO regulates and supports licensed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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