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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-cemeteries-order-1977/schedule-3/paragraph-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-cemeteries-order-1977/schedule-3/paragraph-15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1977/204",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities' Cemeteries Order 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-cemeteries-order-1977",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/15",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where the burial authority remove from a grave either the whole of an existing tombstone or other memorial or the part thereof containing any material particulars they may, and shall if so requested by—\nthe owner of the right to place and maintain, or the person granted permission (not expressed to be revocable) to place, the tombstone or other memorial, or\na relative of any person buried in the grave,\nwithin a year of the date specified in the notice under paragraph 3 (whether such owner or relative made objection under paragraph 9 or 10 or not), place on the grave at their own expense such memorial stone or tablet as they consider suitable.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2114",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Order 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2005/3302",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) (Wales) Order 2005"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1977/204/schedule/3/paragraph/15",
    "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."
}