{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-cemetery-act-2025/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-cemetery-act-2025/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukla/2025/2",
  "legislation_title": "General Cemetery Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-cemetery-act-2025",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "The primary objects of the Charitable Transferee",
  "text": "(1) On its registration as a charity, the objects of the Charitable Transferee must include—\n(a) for the public benefit, the continued operation of the cemetery as a public burial ground for the burial and cremation of the dead;\n(b) for the public benefit, the repair and conservation of the monuments, buildings and historical landscape features of the cemetery;\n(c) for the public benefit, the conservation and management of historic records and other archives relating to the cemetery; and\n(d) for the public benefit, the education of the public about the social, economic, architectural and cultural history of the cemetery and those buried in it.\n(2) In this Act, those objects are referred to as the “primary objects”.\n(3) The objects of the Charitable Transferee and any transferee under section 12 must always include the primary objects.\n(4) The Charitable Transferee and any transferee under section 12 may have other objects but they must be charitable objects.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2025/2/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:44:43.145890+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."
}