The Burial and Cremation (Scotland) Act 2016 (Commencement No. 3, Transitional, Saving and Transitory Provisions) Regulations 2018 No. 380 (C. 24)

Disposal of ashes: saving provision

5.  Where a cremation is carried out before the appointed day—

(a) regulation 17 (disposal of ashes) of the 1935 Regulations continues to apply,

(b) the definition of “cremation authority” in the section entitled “Definitions” in the 1935 Regulations continues to have effect for the purposes of regulation 17 of those Regulations, and

(c) sections 52 to 55 (handling of ashes: duties of cremation authorities) of the Act have no effect.