1.-(1) In the Regulations made by the Secretary of State under section seven of the Cremation Act, 1902, and section ten of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1926, and dated the twenty-eighth day of October, 1930(d) (hereafter in these Regulations referred to as "the principal Regulations"), for Regulation 7 (which makes provision as to the application to he made before a cremation may take place and requires the particulars in the application to be confirmed by statutory declaration), there shall be substituted the following Regulation, that is to say:
"7.-(1) No cremation shall be allowed to take place unless application therefor has been made in Form "A" set out in the Schedule hereto and the information requested in that form duly furnished, the following provisions of this Regulation having been complied with.
(2) The application shall be signed by an executor or the nearest relative of the deceased, so, however, that it may be signed by some other person if the cremation authority is satisfied that that person is a proper one to have signed, and a satisfactory reason is given on the application why it is not signed by an executor or the nearest relative but by that other person.
(3) The application shall be verified by being countersigned by-
(a) a Member of Parliament;
(b) a justice of the peace;
(c) a minister of religion;
(d) an advocate, barrister or solicitor;
(e) a registered medical practitioner or registered dental practitioner;
(f) an officer on the active or half pay or pension lists of any of Her Majesty's naval, military or air forces;
(g) a person on the active or pension list of the permanent civil service of the Crown who is, or was at the date of his retirement, of the rank of clerical officer or equivalent or higher rank and is not less than twenty-one years of age;
(h) a manager or cashier of a bank;
(i)a teacher at a school recognised by the Ministry of Education or the Secretary of State or at a university or university college;
(j) a police officer not below the rank of sergeant;
(k) a member or the clerk of a local authority; or
(l) the secretary of a trade union, registered friendly or approved society or branch of a trade union or registered branch of a friendly society.
who shall specify in which of the above capacities he signed and shall certify that the applicant is known to him or her and that he or she has no reason to doubt the truth of any of the information furnished by the applicant.".
(2) For Form "A" set out in the Schedule to the principal Regulations (being the form of application for cremation containing a statutory declaration), there shall be substituted the form set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.
