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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-burials-act-1864/section-4",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/27-28/97",
  "legislation_title": "Registration of Burials Act 1864",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-burials-act-1864",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Penalty for failure to comply with Act.",
  "text": "If any such company, body, or persons, or any such officer or person as aforesaid wilfully fail to comply with any of the provisions of this Act, they or he shall be guilty of an offence against this Act, and on summary conviction thereof before a justice of the peace shall be liable for every such offence to a penalty not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 46"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/27-28/97/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:04:44.113974+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."
}