{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-burial-management-scotland-regulations-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2025/9780111061329",
  "legislation_title": "The Burial (Management) (Scotland) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-burial-management-scotland-regulations-2025",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations make provision about the management of burial grounds in Scotland.\nRegulation 2 requires a burial authority to prepare and maintain a burial management plan (“plan”) in respect of a burial ground and ensure that the burial ground is managed in accordance with the plan. The same plan may be applied to more than one burial ground.\nRegulation 3 requires a burial authority to maintain burial grounds in good order. The regulation sets out the steps that a burial authority may take in order to comply with this duty.\nRegulation 4 requires a burial authority to carry out regular scheduled inspections to ensure that headstones and other memorials in a burial ground are in safe order. A burial authority must notify the public prior to each scheduled inspection. The regulation sets out examples of steps that may be taken by a burial authority in order to make headstones or other memorials safe, whether following a scheduled inspection or at any other time.\nRegulation 5 permits burial authorities to remove a headstone or other memorial that is erected without authorisation and to recover the cost of doing so from the person responsible for its erection.\nRegulation 6 requires a burial authority to ensure that staff are adequately trained in relation to their day-to-day duties and to keep a written record of training undertaken by staff.\nRegulation 7 requires a burial authority to ensure that equipment is maintained and serviced in accordance with manufacturer instructions and to keep a record of such servicing.\nRegulation 8 permits a burial authority to designate part of a burial ground for use by a particular faith, religious body or belief group.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2025/9780111061329/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:29:00.589272+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."
}