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Parliamentary Report

October 2008–January 2009

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2009

Frank Cranmer
Affiliation:
Fellow, St Chad's College, Durham Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Law and Religion, Cardiff University

Extract

The Cremation (England and Wales) Regulations 2008, which were put in place in the wake of the Shipman murders and the subsequent inquiry by Dame Janet Smith, came into effect on 1 January 2009. They modernise and consolidate all previous regulations, and replace the Cremation Regulations 1930, as amended. However, the new Regulations are themselves an interim measure, to be replaced in due course by a new system of death certification under the Coroners and Justice Bill, which was introduced into the House of Commons in January 2009.

Type
Parliamentary Report
Copyright
Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 2009

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References

1 SI/ 2008/2841, available at <http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2008/uksi_20082841_en_1>, accessed 20 January 2009.

2 SR&O 1930/1016.

4 Available at <http://www.justice.gov.uk/docs/safety-burial-grounds.pdf>, accessed 20 January 2009.

5 A link to the documentation is available at <http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/publicbenefit/default.asp>, accessed 21 January 2009. For a fuller discussion of the guidance on religion and public benefit, see F Cranmer, ‘Religion and public benefit’, on pp 203–205 of this issue.

6 ‘Statement in response to the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) public benefit announcements’, 28 October 2008, available at <http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/news/oscr.asp> accessed 21 January 2009.

7 An example of this unconscious influence was an early attempt by the Charity Commission to import into its general guidance on public benefit the Scots concept of ‘disbenefit’.

8 The Act is available at <http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2008/ukpga_20080029_en_1>, accessed 22 January 2009.

9 (2009) 11 Ecc LJ 84–85.

10 (2008) 10 Ecc LJ 210.

11 HC Deb (2008–09) c 628 (27 March 2009).