{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-of-scotland-property-and-endowments-act-1925/section-33",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-of-scotland-property-and-endowments-act-1925/section-33.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/15-16/33",
  "legislation_title": "Church of Scotland (Property And Endowments) Act 1925",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-of-scotland-property-and-endowments-act-1925",
  "path": "section/33",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "33",
  "heading": "Preservation of monuments, &c., in churches and churchyards.",
  "text": "For the preservation and maintenance of any family burying ground, or enclosure, tombstone, monument, or other memorial to the dead, in any parish churchyard or parish church, any person who, in the case of a parish churchyard, satisfies the council (constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994) or other body to whom the parish churchyard or the control thereof is transferred, and in the case of a parish church satisfies the General Trustees that he has an interest in such burying ground, enclosure, tombstone, monument, or other memorial, on the ground of relationship to the deceased person or persons therein buried or thereby commemorated, shall be entitled, with the approval of thatcouncil or other body to whom the parish churchyard or the control thereof is transferred, or the General Trustees, as the case may be, to provide for the preservation and maintenance of the same.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 33 substituted (S.) (1.4.1996) by S.I. 1996/739, art. 7(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I para. 1(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 33 substituted (S.) (1.4.1996) by S.I. 1996/739, art. 7(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I para. 1(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word substituted by Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65), Sch. 27 Pt. II para. 67"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/15-16/33/section/33",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:42:59.532213+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."
}