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Cemetery fees

Our fees for cemetery burial services can be found here:

Prepayment of future cemetery services

Prepayment of future cemetery services in advance allows you to select and pre-pay for the Interment Right that will be provided when the need arises in the future (previously known as a preneed arrangement).

Making these decisions in advance allows you to take the pressure off your family at what is usually an extremely emotional time and helps ensure your personal wishes are carried out.

These services can be paid for up-front in full or on a payment plan.

Cemetery services that can be prepaid are limited to interment right only.

  • Interment: this means, at a future time placing a deceased person/s or cremated ashes in an interment site or the placement of the deceased person in an above ground mausoleum or vault.
  • Allocation of an interment right: this means that a site is allocated for the burial of a deceased person/s or cremated ashes, or placement of the deceased person in an above ground mausoleum or vault (previously known as burial)
  • Memorial plaque: this is a plate at the interment site with an inscription memorialising the deceased person/s.

If you are organising a funeral for a loved one but are unsure if they had a preneed arrangement or future cemetery service with us, either contact your funeral director or contact us for more information.

Payment plan for future cemetery services

Customers have the option to pay for an interment right over a period of up to 24 months via a Future Cemetery Services Payment Plan.

The following are the terms and conditions for payment plans:

  1. Payment plans must be finalised within 24 months of the date of the payment plan agreement.
  2. Products purchased under this payment plan must include an interment right.
  3. The deposit paid at the time of entering this agreement must be equal to or be greater than:
    1. the administration fee; plus
    2. 10% of the total products purchased under this agreement.
  4. Additional payments of any amount may be paid at any time during this agreement and will be taken into consideration when calculating outstanding payments.
  5. No interest will be charged by Toowoomba Regional Council, however there is an administration charge.
  6. The outstanding balance must reduce each month by the minimum monthly payment amount. Failure to do so may result in the cancellation of the agreement and all monies refunded, excluding the initial deposit amount.
  7. If no payment has been received and/or the outstanding balance is overdue, a reminder letter will be sent. Failure to respond to the letter may result in the cancellation of the agreement and all monies refunded, excluding the initial deposit amount.
  8. You may cancel the agreement in writing and all monies paid will be refunded, excluding the initial deposit amount.
  9. Should any interment service listed in this agreement be required before all monies have been paid, the balance of the fees for the services required must be paid prior to use, for example, if two interment rights were purchased under this agreement, and an interment is necessary prior to the total balance being paid in full, then the balance of one interment right is payable prior to the interment being used. The balance will remain payable as per this existing agreement conditions and time frame.

Once your fees have been paid in full, no additional fees to those outlined in your preneed or future cemetery services payment plan are required for the services paid for and listed in your agreement, are payable.

Please notify us in writing if your contact details change. Contact us. 

Arranging a payment plan

Payment Plans may be arranged in person by appointment at the Cemetery Administration Office located within the grounds of The Drayton & Toowoomba Cemetery (420 South Street, Toowoomba). Please consider you will require at least one hour for this appointment.

 

Related documents

Cemetery - Supply of a memorial plaque application form (online)

Cemetery - Conditions letter (PDF for print)