{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cremation-england-and-wales-regulations-2008/regulation-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cremation-england-and-wales-regulations-2008/regulation-27.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/27",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Authorisation of cremation by medical referee – inquiries by medical referee",
  "text": "(1) Before authorising a cremation, a medical referee may make such inquiry as the medical referee thinks appropriate with regard to—\n(a) an application for cremation;\n(b) a certificate referred to in regulation 16(1)(c), 19(c)(i) or 20(1)(c)(i); or\n(c) a declaration given under regulation 20(1)(c)(ii).\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 27(2) 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(12) (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 27(3) 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(12) (with reg. 5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/2841/regulation/27",
    "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."
}