{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecclesiastical-fees-measure-1986/schedule-A1/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecclesiastical-fees-measure-1986/schedule-A1/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukcm/1986/2",
  "legislation_title": "Ecclesiastical Fees Measure 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecclesiastical-fees-measure-1986",
  "path": "schedule/A1/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In this Schedule—\n“ burial ” includes deposit in a vault or brick grave and the interment or deposit of cremated remains;\n“cemetery” means any burial ground other than a churchyard;\n“ Chancellor ” means the judge of the consistory court or commissary court of the bishop or archbishop of the diocese;\n“lawful disposal”, in respect of cremated remains, means disposal in a manner permitted by canon;\n“ monument ” includes a headstone, cross, kerb, border, vase, chain, railing, tablet, plaque, marker, flatstone, tombstone or tomb of any other kind;\n“ prescribed ” means prescribed by a Parochial Fees Order.",
  "extent": "E",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. A1 inserted (1.7.2011) by Ecclesiastical Fees (Amendment) Measure 2011 (No. 2), ss. 1(2), 6(2), Sch. 1 (with s. 5(3)); 2011 No. 1, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. A1 Pt. 2 para. 6 substituted (1.1.2020) by The Parochial Fees and Scheduled Matters Amending Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/752), arts. 1(2), 3(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. A1 para. 6 inserted (1.1.2015) by The Parochial Fees and Scheduled Matters Amending Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/813), arts. 1(2), 3(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukcm/1986/2/schedule/A1/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:23:02.156428+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."
}