{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-cemeteries-order-1977/article-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-cemeteries-order-1977/article-18.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/18",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Offences in cemeteries",
  "text": "(1) No person shall—\n(a) wilfully create any disturbance in a cemetery;\n(b) commit any nuisance in a cemetery;\n(c) wilfully interfere with any burial taking place in a cemetery;\n(d) wilfully interfere with any grave or vault, any tombstone or other memorial, or any flowers or plants on any such matter; or\n(e) play at any game or sport in a cemetery.\n(2) No person not being an officer or servant of the burial authority or another person so authorised by or on behalf of the burial authority shall enter or remain in a cemetery at any hour when it is closed to the public.",
  "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/18",
    "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."
}