{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-burial-management-scotland-regulations-2025/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-burial-management-scotland-regulations-2025/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "sdsi/2025/9780111061329",
  "legislation_title": "The Burial (Management) (Scotland) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-burial-management-scotland-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Maintenance of burial grounds",
  "text": "(1) A burial authority must maintain a burial ground in good order.\n(2) In maintaining a burial ground in good order, a burial authority may—\n(a) maintain and repair any buildings, walls, fences and other structures erected on or enclosing the burial ground,\n(b) erect walls, fences and other boundary markers on the burial ground,\n(c) enclose, lay out and embellish the burial ground,\n(d) maintain or improve access to and within the burial ground,\n(e) maintain, repair or reposition a headstone or other memorial,\n(f) alter the surface of a lair,\n(g) alter the position of railings, slabs or kerbs,\n(h) manage vegetation,\n(i) remove, and if the burial authority so wishes, replace, any items or structures that are beyond reasonable repair,\n(j) remove or reposition any flowers or plants.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2025/9780111061329/regulation/3",
    "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."
}