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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/burial-and-cremation-applications-and-registers-miscellaneous-amendment-scotland-regulations-2025/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2025/360",
  "legislation_title": "The Burial and Cremation (Applications and Registers) (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/burial-and-cremation-applications-and-registers-miscellaneous-amendment-scotland-regulations-2025",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Burial\nCremation\nDisposal Of Human Remains\nMade 20th November 2025\nLaid before the Scottish Parliament 24th November 2025\nComing into force 2nd March 2026\nThe Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 8(2), 48(2), 57(1) and (2) and 106(1) of the Burial and Cremation (Scotland) Act 2016 and all other powers enabling them to do so.\nIn accordance with section 104(1) and (4) of that Act they have consulted burial authorities, cremation authorities and such other persons as they consider appropriate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2016 asp 20. For the purposes of section 57(1), “prescribed” means prescribed by the Scottish Ministers by regulations (see section 107(1))."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2025/360/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:33:02.191658+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}