The Secretary of State shall make regulations as to the maintenance and inspection of crematoria, and prescribing in what cases and under what conditions the burning of any human remains may take place, and directing the disposition or interment of the ashes, [F1and prescribing the forms of the notices, certificates and [F2applications] to be given or made before any such burning is permitted to take place] F3... and also regulations as to the registration of such burnings as have taken place. [F4[F5Each such application shall be verified in such manner as the Secretary of State may by such regulations prescribe]] F3... All statutory provisions relating to the destruction and falsification of registers of burials, and the admissibility of extracts therefrom as evidence in courts and otherwise, shall apply to the register of burnings directed by such regulations to be kept F6...
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 7 repealed (S.) (13.5.2015) by Certification of Death (Scotland) Act 2011 (asp 11), s. 32(3), Sch. 2 para. 1(2)(a); S.S.I. 2015/115, art. 3
F2Word in s. 7 substituted by Cremation Act 1952 (c. 31) s. 2(1)
F3Words in s. 7 repealed by Cremation Act 1952 (c. 31), s. 2(1)(2)
F4Words in s. 7 repealed (S.) (13.5.2015) by Certification of Death (Scotland) Act 2011 (asp 11), s. 32(3), Sch. 2 para. 1(2)(b); S.S.I. 2015/115, art. 3
F5Words in s. 7 inserted by Cremation Act 1952 (c. 31), s. 2(1)
F6Words in s. 7 repealed by Finance Act 1949 (c. 47), Sch. 11 Pt. V
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 7 extended (E.W.) by Births and Deaths Registration Act 1926 (c. 48), s. 10; amended by Cremation Act 1952 (c. 31), s. 2(2)
C2S. 7 restricted (1.10.2023) by Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (c. 25), ss. 20(6), 182(5) (with s. 180); S.I. 2023/1036, art. 2(b)