{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parochial-fees-order-1997/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1891",
  "legislation_title": "The Parochial Fees Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parochial-fees-order-1997",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In the Schedule to this Order, unless the context otherwise requires–\n“burial” includes deposit in a vault and the interment or deposit of cremated remains;\n“Chancellor” means the judge of the consistory or commissary court of the bishop or archbishop of the diocese;\n“incumbent” means the incumbent of any benefice as defined by the Interpretation Measure 1925;\n“churchyard” includes the curtilage of a church and a burial ground of a church whether or not immediately adjoining such church;\n“cemetery” means a burial ground maintained by a burial authority;\n“monument” includes a headstone, cross, kerb, border, vase, chain, railing, tablet, flatstone, tombstone or monument or tomb of any other kind.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1925 No. 1 (15 & 16 Geo.5.)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1891/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:59:33.826822+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."
}