{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/burial-applications-and-register-scotland-regulations-2024/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/burial-applications-and-register-scotland-regulations-2024/regulation-1.json",
  "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": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Burial (Applications and Register) (Scotland) Regulations 2024 and come into force on 1 March 2025.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Burial and Cremation (Scotland) Act 2016,\n“adult” means a person who is 16 years of age or over,\n“child” means a person (other than a still-born child) who is under 16 years of age,\n“electronic communication” has the meaning given in section 15(1) (general interpretation) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000 and similar expressions are to be construed accordingly.\n(3) A form set out in a schedule of these Regulations and any accompanying information, documents or certificates may be communicated electronically.\n(4) A signature required as shown on a form set out in a schedule of these Regulations must, where—\n(a) an electronic form is used or a form is an electronic communication, be—\n(i) a signature in digital ink, or\n(ii) an image of a signature,\n(b) a paper form is used, be a signature in ink,\nand must be the signatory’s handwritten signature.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in force at 1.3.2025, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 c. 7. Section 15 was amended by paragraph 158 of schedule 17 of the Communications Act 2003 (c. 21)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2024/334/regulation/1",
    "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."
}