5 Amendment of burial service used in certain cases.U.K.
Section 13 of the M1Burial Laws Amendment Act 1880 (which authorises the use of a burial service prescribed or approved of by the Ordinary in cases where the Office for the burial of the dead in the Book of Common Prayer may not be used, and in other cases at the request of the person responsible for the burial of the deceased) shall have effect as if the reference to the said Office included a reference to any form of service available for the burial of suicides and [F1authorised by Canon of the General Synod or approved thereunder], and as if the words “consisting of prayers taken from the Book of Common Prayer and portions of Holy Scriptures” were omitted:
. . . F2
Textual Amendments
F1Words substituted by Church of England (Worship and Doctrine) Measure 1974 (No. 3), Sch. 1
F2Proviso repealed with savings by Church of England (Worship and Doctrine) Measure 1974 (No. 3), s. 6(4), Schs. 2, 3
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