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.