Mission and Pastoral Measure 2011

1 The body or person in whom the building, part of a building or land in question is vested or to whom it is leased or licensed (in this Schedule referred to as “the landowner”) shall, before removing any human remains or any tombstones, monuments or memorials commemorating the deceased persons—

(a) publish in a newspaper circulating in the locality a notice of intention to do so at least once during each of two successive weeks; and

(b) display a like notice in a conspicuous place where the remains are interred; and

(c) serve a like notice on the bishop and on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (in this Schedule referred to as “the Commission”); and

(d) if the remains were interred within twenty-five years before the date of the first publication of the notice, serve a like notice on the personal representatives or next of kin (or, in the event of their being untraceable, any known relative) of the deceased person.