{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cremation-act-1902/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cremation-act-1902/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Edw7/2/8",
  "legislation_title": "Cremation Act 1902",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cremation-act-1902",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Burial authority may provide for cremation.",
  "text": "The powers of a burial authority to provide and maintain burial grounds or cemeteries, or anything essential, ancillary or incidental thereto, shall be deemed to extend to and include the provision and maintenance of crematoria:\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Proviso repealed except in relation to crematorium established before 26.9.1952 by Crematorium Act 1952 (c. 31), s. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw7/2/8/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:25:03.027961+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}