{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/burial-and-cremation-scotland-act-2016/section-85",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/burial-and-cremation-scotland-act-2016/section-85.json",
  "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/85",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "85",
  "heading": "Duty to keep register",
  "text": "(1) Each health authority must prepare and maintain a register containing—\n(a) prescribed information about the burial , cremation or hydrolysis, in pursuance of sections 69 to 84, of the remains of a fetus, and\n(b) other prescribed information.\n(2) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations—\n(a) require a register kept under this section to be in a specified form and kept in a specified manner, or\n(b) make such other provision relating to such a register as they consider appropriate.\n(3) A register kept under this section must be kept indefinitely.\n(4) In this section—\n“health authority” means a Health Board or an independent health care service,\n“specified” means specified in the regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 85(1)(a) 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(23)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 85 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/85",
    "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."
}