Know your fees
All funeral provider licences expire on September 14.
Licence application fees
- Funeral provider licence: $706
- Licence for funeral director, embalmer, or both: $249
Licence renewal fees
For applications submitted more than two weeks prior to licence expiry
- Funeral provider licence renewal: $182
- Licence renewal for funeral director, embalmer, or both: $182
For applications submitted within two weeks prior to licence expiry
- Funeral provider licence renewal: $249
- Licence renewal for funeral director, embalmer, or both: $249
Other fees and charges
- Priority inspection of a new facility before licensing: $336
- Administrative fee under funeral provider’s license: $40*
- Late submission of administrative fee: $283
- Late submission of annual preneed sales report: $283
- Business name change: $66
- Business location change: $66
- Change in senior officers / shareholder of the licensee: $66
- Licensees’ employer change: $66
- Submitting a non-sufficient fund (NSF) payment or declined credit card payment: $63
- Application for reconsideration of a decision: $283
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 | $706 | $647 | $589 | $530 | $470 | $413 | $354 |
| Funeral director, embalmer, or both | $249 | $232 | $204 | $186 | $186 | $186 | $186 |
Licence application fees
- Funeral provider licence: $777
- Licence for funeral director, embalmer, or both: $275
Licence renewal fees
For applications submitted more than two weeks prior to licence expiry
- Funeral provider licence renewal: $200
- Licence renewal for funeral director, embalmer, or both: $200
For applications submitted within two weeks prior to licence expiry
- Funeral provider licence renewal: $275
- Licence renewal for funeral director, embalmer, or both: $275
Other fees and charges
- Priority inspection of a new facility before licensing: $370
- Administrative fee under funeral provider’s license: $48*
- Late submission of administrative fee: $311
- Late submission of annual preneed sales report: $311
- Business name change: $75
- Business location change: $75
- Change in senior officers / director of the licensee: $75
- Licensees’ employer change: $75
- Submitting a non-sufficient fund (NSF) payment or declined credit card payment: $50
- Application for reconsideration of a decision: $311
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 | $777 | $712 | $648 | $583 | $517 | $454 | $389 |
| Month of application | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec-Aug |
| Funeral director, embalmer, or both | $274 | $255 | $224 | $205 |