{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-burial-management-scotland-regulations-2025/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-burial-management-scotland-regulations-2025/regulation-4.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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Safety of headstones and other memorials",
  "text": "(1) A burial authority must carry out scheduled inspections.\n(2) Prior to carrying out a scheduled inspection, a burial authority must notify the public—\n(a) of the date of the inspection,\n(b) that as a result of the inspection, the burial authority will take steps to make safe any headstone or other memorial that the authority considers to be, or risk being, not in safe order,\n(c) what those steps may be.\n(3) In order to return to safe order any headstone or other memorial that the authority considers to be, or risk being, not in safe order, a burial authority may in particular—\n(a) repair, make secure, reposition or remove a headstone or other memorial,\n(b) alter the surface of a lair,\n(c) remove or reposition railings, slabs or kerbs.",
  "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/4",
    "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."
}