NALC welcomes the Law Commission's burial and cremation proposals 

We welcome the Law Commission's proposals to provide modern, certain and consistent regulation across different funerary methods.

Responding to the Law Commission's burial and cremation consultation, we stated that seventy-five years must elapse between the last burial in a grave, the burial rights in that grave being extinguished, and the grave being reused.

We also called for regulation of any land where the primary purpose has been burial, strongly agreed that every burial ground owner should be required to maintain their burial ground in good order and called for a consistent system of burial registration.

However, we disagreed with the proposals to remove the restriction on constructing a crematorium on the consecrated part of a local authority burial ground, as we believe that burial grounds should be left alone in this instance.