PART 1Burial

Lair: restoration to use

37Restoration to use

1

This section applies where under section 36(4) a burial authority has extinguished the right-holder's right of burial in a lair.

2

The burial authority must establish whether it would be practicable for the authority to make the lair available for burials.

3

For the purposes of subsection (2), the authority may—

a

carry out excavations of the lair,

b

open or move any tomb or other structure that is in or on the lair,

c

exhume any human remains that are buried in the lair.

4

Before selling a right of burial in the lair, the burial authority must exhume any human remains that are buried in the lair.

5

If the authority exhumes any human remains under subsection (3) or (4), it must rebury them in the lair as soon as practicable after their exhumation.