75Section 74: power of appropriate health bodyS
(1)This section applies where the appropriate health body is authorised under section 74(4)(a) to make arrangements for the remains of a still-born child to be buried [F1, cremated or hydrolysed].
(2)After the expiry of the 7-day period, the appropriate health body may make arrangements for the remains to be buried [F2, cremated or hydrolysed].
(3)Subsections (4) and (5) apply if the person who authorised the appropriate health body to make the arrangements for the burial [F3, cremation or hydrolysis] of the remains informs the body that the person has decided that the body may make the arrangements before the expiry of the 7-day period.
(4)The appropriate health body must—
(a)record the person's decision in the prescribed form, and
(b)take reasonable steps to secure the person's signature.
(5)The appropriate health body—
(a)may make arrangements for the remains to be buried [F4, cremated or hydrolysed] before the expiry of the 7-day period, and
(b)if by virtue of section 74(4)(a)(i) it is authorised to do so in a specified way, must do so in that way.
(6)In this section—
“7-day period” means the period of 7 days beginning with the day on which authorisation is given under section 74(4)(a),
“appropriate health body” has the meaning given by section 74(10).
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 75(1) substituted (4.2.2026 for specified purposes, 2.3.2026 in so far as not already in force) by The Hydrolysis (Scotland) (No. 1) Regulations 2026 (S.S.I. 2026/50), reg. 1(2)(3), sch. 2 para. 1(13)(a)
F2Words in s. 75(2) substituted (4.2.2026 for specified purposes, 2.3.2026 in so far as not already in force) by The Hydrolysis (Scotland) (No. 1) Regulations 2026 (S.S.I. 2026/50), reg. 1(2)(3), sch. 2 para. 1(13)(b)
F3Words in s. 75(3) substituted (4.2.2026 for specified purposes, 2.3.2026 in so far as not already in force) by The Hydrolysis (Scotland) (No. 1) Regulations 2026 (S.S.I. 2026/50), reg. 1(2)(3), sch. 2 para. 1(13)(c)
F4Words in s. 75(5)(a) substituted (4.2.2026 for specified purposes, 2.3.2026 in so far as not already in force) by The Hydrolysis (Scotland) (No. 1) Regulations 2026 (S.S.I. 2026/50), reg. 1(2)(3), sch. 2 para. 1(13)(d)
Commencement Information
I1S. 75 in force at 4.4.2019 by S.S.I. 2018/380, reg. 2, sch. (with reg. 8)