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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/burial-and-cremation-scotland-act-2016/section-76",
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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/76",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "76",
  "heading": "Section 74: general power of appropriate health body",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where it appears to the appropriate health body that no arrangements have been or are being made under section 74(2) or (4) for the remains of a still-born child to be buried , cremated or hydrolysed.\n(2) The appropriate health body may make arrangements for the remains to be buried , cremated or hydrolysed.\n(3) In this section, “appropriate health body” has the meaning given by section 74(10).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 76(1) substituted (4.2.2026 for specified purposes, 2.3.2026 in so far as not already in force) by The Hydrolysis (Scotland) (No. 1) Regulations 2026 (S.S.I. 2026/50), reg. 1(2)(3), sch. 2 para. 1(14)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 76(2) substituted (4.2.2026 for specified purposes, 2.3.2026 in so far as not already in force) by The Hydrolysis (Scotland) (No. 1) Regulations 2026 (S.S.I. 2026/50), reg. 1(2)(3), sch. 2 para. 1(14)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 76 in force at 4.4.2019 by S.S.I. 2018/380, reg. 2, sch. (with reg. 8)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2016/20/section/76",
    "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."
}