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MR-0029 Requested, Not Addressed

Licences or orders for the removal of human remains from the site (burials found 1989–1995)

Should exist. Not held.

Why: Statute (Burial Act 1857 s.25; Disused Burial Grounds (Amendment) Act 1981).

MR-0029 · not held
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Removing human remains needs a Home Office licence (Burial Act 1857, s.25), a faculty for consecrated ground, or the notices required by the Disused Burial Grounds (Amendment) Act 1981.

Who should hold it: Ministry of Justice (successor to the Home Office burials function); Church in Wales; Vale of Glamorgan Council (planning conditions)

Date of the record: 1989–1995

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