Cemeteries and Crematoria Act 2013

On the conversion date—

any estate or interest in the conversion land which, immediately before the conversion date, was vested in or held by any person or body of persons or the council is divested, and

any person or body referred to in paragraph (a) and the council are discharged from any duties, liabilities or obligations existing immediately before the conversion date in respect of or in relation to the conversion land, and

any trusts, conditions, encumbrances, dedications or reservations affecting the conversion land immediately before the conversion date are revoked and annulled, and

any instruments of title issued in respect of any part of or including any part of the conversion land and subsisting immediately before the conversion date are cancelled in so far as they relate to the conversion land, and

any money, securities or assets held by the council in respect of the conversion land or of any grave or monument in or on the conversion land immediately before the conversion date is freed from any conditions or trusts subject to or on which they were held immediately before that date and must be used by the council for or towards maintaining the graves or monuments preserved pursuant to clause 11 or for or towards maintaining the conversion land as a rest park.

Any person who immediately before the conversion date was the holder of, or who was entitled to be the holder (either at law or in equity) of, any exclusive right to burial within the conversion land may, within a period of 6 months after the conversion date, apply in writing to the Minister to be granted a fresh exclusive right to burial.

The Minister must, as soon as practicable after any application has been made under subsection (2), arrange for the provision to that person of a new burial site in a cemetery selected at the discretion of the Minister.