{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parish-councils-and-burial-authorities-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1970/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parish-councils-and-burial-authorities-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1970/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1970/29",
  "legislation_title": "Parish Councils and Burial Authorities (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1970",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parish-councils-and-burial-authorities-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1970",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Interpretation.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) In this Act “burial authority” means the council of a district, London borough, parish or community, the Common Council of the City of London, the parish meeting of a parish having no parish council, whether separate or common or a joint board established under section 6 of the Public Health Act 1936 or by or under any local Act to exercise the functions conferred by section 214 of, and Schedule 26 to the Local Government Act 1972 or by any enactment replaced by those provisions“burial ground” has the same meaning as in the Open Spaces Act 1906.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 5(1) repealed by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 30"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Definition of “burial authority” repealed by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 30 and new definition substituted by virtue of Sch. 26 para. 25 of that Act"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1936 c. 49."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1972 c. 70."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1906 c. 25."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/29/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:51:11.028754+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."
}