Plan and record of cemetery
9.—(1) A burial authority shall maintain a plan showing and allocating distinctive numbers to—
(a)all graves or vaults in which burials are made after the coming into operation of this order or are known to have been made before that event; and
(b)the grave spaces subject to the specified rights.
(2) A burial authority shall also maintain records, by reference to the numbers in the plan, of—
(a)the burials made after the coming into operation of this order in any graves or vaults; and
(b)the specified rights existing in any graves or vaults, or grave spaces, and the names of the grantees thereof as recorded in the register maintained under Part II of Schedule 2 or in the registers described in paragraph 2(b) of that Part.
(3) In this article “the specified rights” means
(a)the rights granted by the burial authority or any predecessors of theirs under article 10(1) or under article 9(1) of the order of 1974; and
(b)the rights granted under section 33 of the Burial Act 1852, section 40 of the Cemeteries Clauses Act 1847 or a corresponding provision in any local Act.