Local Government Act 1976 · Updated to 1 Dec 2012 · Part XI · Burial Places, Crematoria and Exhumation
94. Local authority may provide burial grounds and crematoria and issue licences for the same
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A local authority may provide suitable places within or without the local authority area to be used as burial grounds or crematoria and shall make proper provision for maintaining the same.
(2)
A local authority may, in its discretion, issue licences for the use of other places within the local authority area for the burial or cremating of corpses.
(3)
Every licence for the use of a place as a burial ground or crematorium shall be issued to the registered proprietor of the place in respect of which the same is issued.