On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 10:42:04 -0000, "Gordon" <gordonwb@argonet.co.uk> wrote: >"Richard Smith" wrote in message news:dbv1jqFpavqU1@mid.individual.net... >> >>On 28/11/15 12:06, Gordon wrote: >> >>> To scatter ashes you must have the land owners permission otherwise >>> you could be prosecuted for illegal disposal of human remains, >> >>That's bollocks: you can't possibly be prosecuted for illegal disposal >>of human remains for the simple reason that ashes are not considered >>human remains. You could perhaps be prosecuted for littering or similar, >>or conceivably criminal damage (though the circumstances would have to be >>extraordinary to make that sticking). >> >>Richard > >That shows how little you know. Ashes are still human remains and >unauthorised scattering can be view as illegal disposal. Ask an undertaker >or read the paper placed in the urn by the crematorium. > Undertakers are businesses which are subject to more stringent requirements on the disposal of waste than a private person; a private person in possession of cremated remains is subject to no more requirements than if they are any other type of domestic waste. Unauthorised scattering commits no more offence than scattering other inert litter; this assumes that such a person is in proper possession of such remains.