Rights of sepultureU.K.
8 Exclusive rights to burial spaces.U.K.
(1)Any right to the exclusive use of any particular part of a churchyard, burial ground or other consecrated land for the purposes of sepulture, whether absolute or limited and however granted or acquired, shall cease one hundred years after the passing of this Measure, unless granted, enlarged or continued by a faculty issued after the passing of this Measure:
Provided that the court shall not issue a faculty granting enlarging or continuing any such right for any period longer than one hundred years from the date of the faculty.
(2)This section shall not apply to burial grounds and cemeteries provided under [F1the M1Local Government Act 1972].
Textual Amendments
F1Words substituted by virtue of Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), s. 272(2)
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