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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT AMENDMENT ACT - SECT 6

Burial of body, within walls of prison, or, in certain cases, elsewhere.

6. The body of every offender executed shall be buried within the walls of the
prison within which judgment of death is executed on him: Provided, that if
one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State is satisfied on the
representation of the [board of visitors] of a prison that there is not
convenient space within the walls thereof for the burial of offenders executed
therein, he may, by writing under his hand, appoint some other fit place for
that purpose, and the same shall be used accordingly.

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