Know your fees
All funeral provider licences expire on September 14.
Licence application fees
- Funeral provider licence: $628
- Licence for funeral director, embalmer, or both: $221
Licence renewal fees
For applications submitted more than two weeks prior to licence expiry
- Funeral provider licence renewal: $162
- Licence renewal for funeral director, embalmer, or both: $162
For applications submitted within two weeks prior to licence expiry
- Funeral provider licence renewal: $221
- Licence renewal for funeral director, embalmer, or both: $221
Other fees and charges
- Priority inspection of a new facility before licensing: $299
- Administrative fee under funeral provider’s license: $40*
- Late submission of administrative fee: $252
- Late submission of annual preneed sales report: $252
- Business name change: $59
- Business location change: $59
- Change in senior officers / shareholder of the licensee: $59
- Licensees’ employer change: $59
- Submitting an NSF payment or declined credit card payment: $57
- Application for reconsideration of a decision: $252
Read about our reconsideration process.
*Exemptions for administrative fees are:
(i) death registrations where the services are paid for by the Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee, the Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction, a First Nation funded through the Federal Department of Crown–Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC), a First Nation Administering Authority administering an Income Assistance Program on behalf of Indigenous Services Canada; and
(ii) death registrations in respect of an infant either stillborn or deceased at less than 7 days of age.
Prorated licence fees
If you become licensed mid-way through the year, this is the fee schedule:
Month of application | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar-Aug |
Funeral provider | $628 | $575 | $523 | $471 | $418 | $367 | $314 |
Funeral director, embalmer, or both | $221 | $206 | $181 | $165 | $165 | $165 | $165 |
Licence application fees
- Funeral provider licence: $653
- Licence for funeral director, embalmer, or both: $230
Licence renewal fees
For applications submitted more than two weeks prior to licence expiry
- Funeral provider licence renewal: $168
- Licence renewal for funeral director, embalmer, or both: $168
For applications submitted within two weeks prior to licence expiry
- Funeral provider licence renewal: $230
- Licence renewal for funeral director, embalmer, or both: $230
Other fees and charges
- Priority inspection of a new facility before licensing: $311
- Administrative fee under funeral provider’s license: $40*
- Late submission of administrative fee: $262
- Late submission of annual preneed sales report: $262
- Business name change: $61
- Business location change: $61
- Change in senior officers / shareholder of the licensee: $61
- Licensees’ employer change: $61
- Submitting a non-sufficient fund (NSF) payment or declined credit card payment: $59
- Application for reconsideration of a decision: $262
Read about our reconsideration process.
*Exemptions for administrative fees are:
(i) death registrations where the services are paid for by the Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee, the Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction, a First Nation funded through the Federal Department of Crown–Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC), a First Nation Administering Authority administering an Income Assistance Program on behalf of Indigenous Services Canada; and
(ii) death registrations in respect of an infant either stillborn or deceased at less than 7 days of age.
Prorated licence fees
If you become licensed mid-way through the year, this is the fee schedule:
Month of application | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar-Aug |
Funeral provider | $653 | $597 | $544 | $490 | $435 | $382 | $327 |
Funeral director, embalmer, or both | $230 | $214 | $188 | $172 | $172 | $172 | $172 |
Licence application fees
- Funeral provider licence: $679
- Licence for funeral director, embalmer, or both: $239
Licence renewal fees
For applications submitted more than two weeks prior to licence expiry
- Funeral provider licence renewal: $175
- Licence renewal for funeral director, embalmer, or both: $175
For applications submitted within two weeks prior to licence expiry
- Funeral provider licence renewal: $239
- Licence renewal for funeral director, embalmer, or both: $239
Other fees and charges
- Priority inspection of a new facility before licensing: $323
- Administrative fee under funeral provider’s license: $40*
- Late submission of administrative fee: $272
- Late submission of annual preneed sales report: $272
- Business name change: $63
- Business location change: $63
- Change in senior officers / shareholder of the licensee: $63
- Licensees’ employer change: $63
- Submitting a non-sufficient fund (NSF) payment or declined credit card payment: $61
- Application for reconsideration of a decision: $272
Read about our reconsideration process.
*Exemptions for administrative fees are:
(i) death registrations where the services are paid for by the Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee, the Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction, a First Nation funded through the Federal Department of Crown–Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC), a First Nation Administering Authority administering an Income Assistance Program on behalf of Indigenous Services Canada; and
(ii) death registrations in respect of an infant either stillborn or deceased at less than 7 days of age.
Prorated licence fees
If you become licensed mid-way through the year, this is the fee schedule:
Month of application | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar-Aug |
Funeral provider | $679 | $622 | $566 | $510 | $452 | $397 | $340 |
Funeral director, embalmer, or both | $239 | $223 | $196 | $179 | $179 | $179 | $179 |