{"id":10130,"date":"2025-11-25T17:10:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T17:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/?p=10130"},"modified":"2025-11-25T17:10:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T17:10:17","slug":"scottish-government-update-25th-november-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/scottish-government-update-25th-november-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Government Update 25th November 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Scottish Government Introduces New Regulations Under the Burial and Cremation (Scotland) Act 2016<\/h2>\n<p>The Scottish Government laid the Burial and Cremation (Applications and Registers) (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2025 in the Scottish Parliament on 24 November 2025.<\/p>\n<p>These Regulations amend the Cremation (Scotland) Regulations 2019 (\u201cthe Cremation Regulations\u201d) and the Burial (Applications and Register) (Scotland) Regulations 2024 (\u201cthe Burial Applications Regulations\u201d). This is partly in response to feedback on the forms and suggestions from the funeral sector and others.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/funeral-industry\/2025\/11\/25\/scottish-government-introduces-new-regulations-under-the-burial-and-cremation-scotland-act-2016-2\/\"><u>Update here<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If approved by the Scottish Parliament these regulations will come into force on <strong>2 March 2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/funeral-industry\/2025\/11\/25\/scottish-government-introduces-new-regulations-under-the-burial-and-cremation-scotland-act-2016-2\/\"><u>Full draft regulations<\/u><\/a><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/ssi\/2025\/360\/made\"> here<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Scottish Government Introduces New Regulations Under the Burial and Cremation (Scotland) Act 2016 The Scottish Government laid the Burial and Cremation (Applications and Registers) (Miscellaneous <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/scottish-government-update-25th-november-2025\/\" title=\"Scottish Government Update 25th November 2025\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10131,"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10130\/revisions\/10131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}