The Removal of Bodies (Amendment) Regulations 1971

• Citation: S.I. 1971/1354
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Title and commencement

These regulations may be cited as the Removal of Bodies (Amendment) Regulations 1971 and shall come into operation on 1st October 1971.

Section 2 Interpretation

(1) In these regulations the expression “ the principal regulations ” means the Removal of Bodies Regulations 1954 .

(2) The Interpretation Act 1889applies to the interpretation of these regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

Section 3 Endorsement of certificate for cremation

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:—

(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.

Section 4 Notice of intention to remove a body out of England

For the first schedule to the principal regulations (which sets out the form of notice of intention to remove a body out of England) there shall be substituted the following schedule:—

FORM OF NOTICE TO A CORONER OF INTENTION TO REMOVE A BODY OUT OF ENGLAND