Burial and Cremation (Scotland) Act 2016 (asp 20)

PART 3 Arrangements

Pregnancy losses: general

85 Duty to keep register

(1) Each health authority must prepare and maintain a register containing—

(a) prescribed information about the burial or cremation, in pursuance of sections 69 to 84, of the remains of a fetus, and

(b) other prescribed information.

(2) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations—

(a) require a register kept under this section to be in a specified form and kept in a specified manner, or

(b) make such other provision relating to such a register as they consider appropriate.

(3) A register kept under this section must be kept indefinitely.

(4) In this section—

• “health authority” means a Health Board or an independent health care service,

• “specified” means specified in the regulations.