# Burial and Cremation (Scotland) Act 2016, Section 85: Duty to keep register


(1) Each health authority must prepare and maintain a register containing—
(a) prescribed information about the burial , cremation or hydrolysis, in pursuance of sections 69 to 84, of the remains of a fetus, and
(b) other prescribed information.
(2) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations—
(a) require a register kept under this section to be in a specified form and kept in a specified manner, or
(b) make such other provision relating to such a register as they consider appropriate.
(3) A register kept under this section must be kept indefinitely.
(4) In this section—
“health authority” means a Health Board or an independent health care service,
“specified” means specified in the regulations.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2016/20/section/85 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/burial-and-cremation-scotland-act-2016/section-85
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