# General Cemetery Act 2025, Section 12: Further transfers of the cemetery


(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, the Charitable Transferee may transfer its interest in the cemetery, or any part of it, together with any property, rights and liabilities relating to the cemetery, or that part (as the case may be), to another person (“the new transferee”).
(2) The new transferee must be a charity.
(3) Where a transfer has been made, references in the old Acts or this Act to the Charitable Transferee (including any references that apply by virtue of section 8(3)) are to be construed as references to the new transferee.
(4) Subsections (2), (3) and (7) do not apply to a limited transfer.
(5) The Charitable Transferee may not make a limited transfer of any part of the cemetery that has been consecrated and set apart for the burial of the dead without a faculty granted by the consistory court of the diocese of London.
(6) A transfer under subsection (1) is not a disposition falling within section 117(3)(a) of the Charities Act 2011 (restrictions on dispositions of land: general).
(7) Where a transfer of an interest in the cemetery or any part of the cemetery under this section includes a registrable disposition of land under the Land Registration Act 2002, the new transferee must apply to the Chief Land Registrar for registration in the register of title of a restriction to reflect subsection (2).
(8) In this section, a “limited transfer” means a transfer by the Charitable Transferee of its interest in any part of the land comprised in the cemetery that in the opinion of the Charitable Transferee is not required for the exercise of its functions under the old Acts and this Act.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2025/2/section/12 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/general-cemetery-act-2025/section-12
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