{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/removal-of-bodies-amendment-regulations-1971/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/removal-of-bodies-amendment-regulations-1971/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1971/1354",
  "legislation_title": "The Removal of Bodies (Amendment) Regulations 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/removal-of-bodies-amendment-regulations-1971",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Endorsement of certificate for cremation",
  "text": "For regulation 5(2) of the principal regulations (which provides for the coroner's endorsement of the certificate for cremation where notice is given of intention to cremate the body in Scotland or the Channel Islands) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—\n“(2) Any coroner's order for burial or certificate for cremation sent to the coroner under regulation 4 of these regulations shall be retained by him unless he is notified in writing by the person wishing to remove the body out of England that it is intended that the body shall be cremated in Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man, in which case the coroner shall endorse the certificate with words to the effect that it shall henceforth be valid only for cremation in Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man, as the case may be, and return it to the person receiving the acknowledgement of the receipt of notice under sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1) of this regulation.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1971/1354/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:41:34.846478+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."
}