# Capital Punishment Amendment Act 1868 (repealed), Section 6: Burial of body, within walls of prison, or, in certain cases, elsewhere.

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

The body of every offender executed shall be buried within the walls of the prison within which judgment of death is executed on him: Provided, that if one of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State is satisfied on the representation of the visiting justices of a prison that there is not convenient space within the walls thereof for the burial of offenders executed therein, he may, by writing under his hand, appoint some other fit place for that purpose, and the same shall be used accordingly.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/31-32/24/section/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/capital-punishment-amendment-act-1868-repealed/section-6
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