{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cremation-england-and-wales-regulations-2008/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cremation-england-and-wales-regulations-2008/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/2841",
  "legislation_title": "The Cremation (England and Wales) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cremation-england-and-wales-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the 1953 Act” means the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 ;\n...\n“the 2004 Act” means the Human Tissue Act 2004 ;\n“the 2009 Act” means the Coroners and Justice Act 2009;\n“applicant” means the person making an application for cremation in accordance with regulation 15;\n“ashes” means all the material left in the cremator after a cremation, and following—\n(a)the removal of any metal, and\n(b)any subsequent grinding or other process which is applied to the material;\n“body parts” means material which consists of, or includes, human cells from—\n(a)a deceased person, whether or not separation from the body occurred before or after death; or\n(b)a stillborn child;\n“cremation” means the burning of human remains;\n“cremation authority” means any burial authority or any person who has opened a crematorium and, in regulation 3(a), includes any burial authority or person who intends to open a crematorium;\n“deputy medical referee” means a person appointed under regulation 6(2);\n“five years' standing”, in relation to a registered medical practitioner, means that the medical practitioner—\n(a)has been a fully registered person within the meaning of section 55 of the Medical Act 1983 for at least five years; and\n(b)if paragraph 10 of Schedule 1 to the Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) Order 2002 has come into force, has held a licence to practise under the 1983 Act—\n(i)for at least five years; or\n(ii)since the coming into force of that paragraph;\n“investigation” means an investigation into the death of a deceased person under Part 1 of the 2009 Act;\n...\n“medical referee” means a person appointed under regulation 6(1);\n“registrar” means a person appointed under regulation 31;\n“stillborn” and “stillbirth” apply to any child born after the twenty-fourth week of pregnancy and which did not at any time after birth, breathe or show any other signs of life.\n(2) In calculating the time periods referred to in regulation 32(2), any period must be disregarded if it falls on—\n(a) a Saturday or a Sunday;\n(b) Christmas Day or Good Friday; or\n(c) a day which is a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 in England and Wales.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (25.7.2013) by virtue of The Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (Commencement No. 15, Consequential and Transitory Provisions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1869), art. 4, Sch. para. 4(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (25.7.2013) by The Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (Commencement No. 15, Consequential and Transitory Provisions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1869), art. 4, Sch. para. 4(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (1.10.2016) by The Cremation (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/883), regs. 1, 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2(1) substituted (6.4.2018) by The Cremation (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1238), regs. 1, 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (25.7.2013) by The Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (Commencement No. 15, Consequential and Transitory Provisions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1869), art. 4, Sch. para. 4(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (9.9.2024) by virtue of The Cremation, Coroners and Notification of Deaths (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/668), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(a) (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) substituted (9.9.2024) by The Cremation, Coroners and Notification of Deaths (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/668), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(b) (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1953 c. 20."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "2004 c. 30."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1983 c. 54."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "S.I. 2002/3135."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M5",
      "text": "1971 c. 80."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/2841/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:22:39.183802+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."
}