{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-cemeteries-order-1977/article-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-cemeteries-order-1977/article-14.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1977/204",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities' Cemeteries Order 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-cemeteries-order-1977",
  "path": "article/14",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Cost of removal of unauthorised memorials",
  "text": "If a burial authority remove from a cemetery any tombstone or other memorial placed therein otherwise than in the exercise of a right granted by, or otherwise with the approval of, the burial authority or any predecessor of theirs, the burial authority may recover the cost thereby incurred by them—\n(a) from the person to whose order the tombstone or memorial was placed;\n(b) within two years from the placing of the tombstone or memorial, from the personal representative of such person,\nas a simple contract debt in any court of competent jurisdiction.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1977/204/article/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:09:45.448284+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."
}