The Town and Country Planning (Churches, Places of Religious Worship and Burial Grounds) Regulations 1950

9.—(1) The personal representatives or relatives of any deceased person whose remains are interred in the land may, on giving the required notice, themselves remove and reinter any such remains, and may dispose of any tombstone, monument or other memorial commemorating the deceased, and the person in whom the land is vested shall defray the cost of such removal and reinterment or disposal, as respects the remains removed from any one grave, up to the sum of twenty-five pounds; and as respects any tombstone, monument or other memorial, up to the sum of fifteen pounds.

(2) If the removal and reinterment or disposal, as the case may be, has not been carried out by the personal representatives or relatives in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations within two months from the date of the required notice, the person in whom the land is vested may carry out the removal and reinterment or disposal as if the required notice had not been given.