{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/burial-and-cremation-scotland-act-2016/section-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/burial-and-cremation-scotland-act-2016/section-9.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/9",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Unauthorised burial: offences",
  "text": "(1) A person commits an offence if the person contravenes section 8(1) by knowingly carrying out a burial in respect of which no application has been granted.\n(2) A person commits an offence if the person—\n(a) provides information in, or in connection with, an application mentioned in section 8(1) which the person knows to be false or misleading in a material way, or\n(b) recklessly provides information in, or in connection with, such an application which is false or misleading in a material way.\n(3) A person who commits an offence under subsection (1) is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale or to both.\n(4) A person who commits an offence under subsection (2) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 9 in force at 1.3.2025 by S.S.I. 2024/335, reg. 2(1), sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2016/20/section/9",
    "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."
}