Section 7 Fees for licences to remove bodies after burial.

Where a Secretary of State issues a licence under section twenty-five of the M1Burial Act 1857, for the removal of any body, or the remains of any body, which has been interred in any place of burial, there shall be payable in respect of the licence such fee, not exceeding F1twenty pounds, as the Secretary of State, with the consent of the Treasury, may prescribe.

Where in connexion with the removal of any such body or remains, any officer of any local authority, with the consent of the authority and in pursuance of any conditions attached to the licence by the Secretary of State, performs any duties, it shall be lawful for the Secretary of State to pay to the local authority any part of the fee received by him in connexion with such removal.