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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-regulations-1968/regulation-61",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1968/2049",
  "legislation_title": "The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Regulations 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-regulations-1968",
  "path": "regulation/61",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "61",
  "heading": "Notification of disposal",
  "text": "The person effecting the disposal of the body of a deceased person, or some responsible person deputed to act on his behalf, shall write, sign and date the notification of disposal embodied in the certificate for disposal or in the coroner's order with respect to the deceased person, and then detach the notification and deliver it to the registrar; or, where a declaration has been made as referred to in regulation 60, the person effecting the disposal shall notify the registrar in writing in the terms used in form 12.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1968/2049/regulation/61",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T23:16:20.581505+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."
}