(1)A person who apart from this subsection has no right of burial in the churchyard or other burial ground of a parish shall have a right of burial therein if at the date of his death his name is entered on the church electoral roll of the parish.
(2)No person, other than a person having a right of burial in the churchyard or other burial ground of a parish, shall be buried therein without the consent of the minister of the parish, but in deciding whether to give such consent the minister shall have regard to any general guidance given by the parochial church council of the parish with respect to the matter.
(3)In this section “minister”, in relation to a parish, means the incumbent of the benefice to which the parish belongs or, if the benefice is vacant, the minister acting as priest in charge of the parish or the curate licensed to the charge of the parish or, if there is no such minister or curate, the rural dean of the deanery in which the parish is.