{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/burial-applications-and-register-scotland-regulations-2024/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2024/334",
  "legislation_title": "The Burial (Applications and Register) (Scotland) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/burial-applications-and-register-scotland-regulations-2024",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations make provision regarding burials in Scotland, in particular in respect of the application process for burials and the burial register. These Regulations are made for implementation of the Burial and Cremation (Scotland) Act 2016, which makes provision to regulate burial and places duties on burial authorities accordingly.\nRegulation 2 makes provision about documentation which must be retained by burial authorities for a period of 50 years on a confidential basis.\nRegulation 3 concerns the application process for burials. Applications must be in a prescribed form and contain the information specified in the relevant form (contained in schedules 1 to 7).\nRegulation 4 prescribes the information which must be recorded in burial registers and places a duty on burial authorities to review each register from time to time and ensure that the information is accurate and up to date.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2024/334/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:38:10.748707+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."
}