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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cemeteries-clauses-act-1847/section-26",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/10-11/65",
  "legislation_title": "Cemeteries Clauses Act 1847",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cemeteries-clauses-act-1847",
  "path": "section/26",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Bodies when interred not to be removed without lawful authority.",
  "text": "No body buried in the consecrated part of the cemetery shall be removed from its place of burial without the like authority as is by law required for the removal of any body buried in the churchyard belonging to a parish church.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/65/section/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:30:39.399657+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."
}