{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/burial-and-cremation-scotland-act-2016/section-60",
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  "legislation": "asp/2016/20",
  "legislation_title": "Burial and Cremation (Scotland) Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/burial-and-cremation-scotland-act-2016",
  "path": "section/60",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "60",
  "heading": "Section 59: offences",
  "text": "(1) A person commits an offence if, without reasonable excuse, the person contravenes subsection (4) of section 59 by determining the first application—\n(a) without notice having been given to the person under that subsection, or\n(b) where notice is given to the person under that subsection, before the day specified in the notice.\n(2) A person who commits an offence under subsection (1) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.\n(3) In subsection (1), “first application” has the meaning given by section 59(2).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 60 in force at 4.4.2019 by S.S.I. 2018/380, reg. 2, sch. (with regs. 7, 8)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2016/20/section/60",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:13:27.457406+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."
}