{"id":10151,"date":"2025-12-03T10:39:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T10:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/?p=10151"},"modified":"2025-12-03T10:39:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T10:39:41","slug":"scottish-government-introduces-hydrolysis-regulations-under-the-burial-and-cremation-scotland-act-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/scottish-government-introduces-hydrolysis-regulations-under-the-burial-and-cremation-scotland-act-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Government Introduces Hydrolysis Regulations Under the Burial and Cremation (Scotland) Act 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Scottish Government laid the Hydrolysis (Scotland) (No. 1) Regulations 2026 and the Hydrolysis (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2026 in the Scottish Parliament on 3 December 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Regulations will enable hydrolysis to be offered as an option for people interested in alternatives to burial or cremation in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>If approved by the Scottish Parliament these Regulations will come into force on<strong> 2 March 2026<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>More information <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/funeral-industry\/2025\/12\/03\/scottish-government-introduces-new-hydrolysis-regulations-under-the-burial-and-cremation-scotland-act-2016\/\"><u>here<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The full draft Regulations are now available to view on legislation.gov.uk at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/sdsi\/2026\/9780111064443\/contents\"><u>The Hydrolysis (Scotland) (No. 1) Regulations 2026<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/sdsi\/2026\/9780111064450\/contents\"><u>The Hydrolysis (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2026<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Scottish Government laid the Hydrolysis (Scotland) (No. 1) Regulations 2026 and the Hydrolysis (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2026 in the Scottish Parliament on 3 <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/scottish-government-introduces-hydrolysis-regulations-under-the-burial-and-cremation-scotland-act-2016\/\" title=\"Scottish Government Introduces Hydrolysis Regulations Under the Burial and Cremation (Scotland) Act 2016\">[&#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\/10151"}],"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=10151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10152,"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10151\/revisions\/10152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}