{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-parishes-and-parish-councils-regulations-1999/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-parishes-and-parish-councils-regulations-1999/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/545",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Parishes and Parish Councils) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-parishes-and-parish-councils-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Matters not affected",
  "text": "Nothing in these Regulations shall affect–\n(a) the status of any city;\n(b) the status of any person who is an honorary freeman of any parish having the status of a city or entitled to be called or styled a royal town;\n(c) any person’s status, or the right of any person to be admitted, as a freeman of any place;\n(d) any right–\n(i) of burial; or\n(ii) to construct a grave or vault; or\n(iii) to place, maintain or inscribe a tombstone or memorial.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/545/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:59:34.025429+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."
}