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CEMETERIES CLAUSES ACT 1847


TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   1.      Incorporation with special Act.
   2.      ""The special Act'':
   3.      Interpretations in this and the special Act.
   4.      Short title.
   5.      Form in which portions of this Act may be incorporated in other
           Acts.
   6.      Taking of lands for purposes of special Act to be subject to this
           Act and the Land Clauses Consolidation Act.
   7.      Correction of errors and omissions in special Act.
   8.      Certified copies of alterations, &c. to be evidence.
   9.      Lands used for burials not to be used for other than authorized
           purposes.
   10.     Cemetery not to be within a certain distance of houses.
   11.     Company may build chapels, and lay out their grounds.
   12.     Company may make or widen roads to cemetery.
   13.     No road to be widened without consent.
   14.     Improvement of roads.
   15.     Cemetery to be inclosed and fenced.
   16.     Cemetery to be kept in repair.
   17.     Compensation for damage.
   18.     Power to make sewers, drains, &c. in and about the cemetery.
   19.     Provisions of 1847 c.17 incorporated with this Act.
   20.     Penalty on company for allowing water to be fouled.
   21.     By whom, how, and within what time, such penalty may be recovered.
   22.     Damages, or a daily penalty during the continuance of the offence
           after notice, may be recovered.
   23.     Part of cemetery may be set apart for burial according to rites of
           Established Church.
   24.     Consecrated and unconsecrated ground to be defined.
   25.     Chapel for Established Church service.
   26.     Removal of bodies from consecrated ground.
   27.     Appointment and licensing of chaplain.
   28.     Burial service over bodies entitled to burial in consecrated ground.
   29.     Other clergymen of Established Church may be allowed to officiate.
   30.     Company to pay the chaplain a stipend approved by the bishop.
   31.     Stipend may be recovered by action at law.
   32.     Register of burials in the consecrated portion.
   33.     Registers to be subject to the regulations of 1836 c.86 as to
           searches, &c.
   34.     Appointment of clerk for consecrated part of the cemetery.
   35.     Burial of persons not members of Established Church.
   36.     Any burial service may be performed in chapels on unconsecrated
           part.
   37.     Power to appoint gravediggers, &c.
   38.     Regulations.
   39.     No burials under or close to chapels.
   40.     Parts of the cemetery set apart for grant of exclusive rights of
           burial.
   41.     Plan of parts set apart for grant of exclusive rights, and book of
           reference thereto, to be kept.
   42.     Grant of exclusive right, &c. may be according to form in schedule.
   43.     Register of grants to be kept.
   44.     Rights of burial may be assigned or bequeathed.
   45.     Form of assignments.
   46.     Assignments to be registered.
   47.     Probates of wills disposing of rights of burial to be registered.
   48.     Burials in places where exclusive right has been granted.
   49.     No grant to give right in consecrated ground, &c. to persons not
           entitled to be buried according to rites of Established Church.
   50.     Power to remove monuments erected without authority.
   51.     Rights of bishop to object to monumental inscriptions in consecrated
           part of cemetery.
   52.     Payments to incumbents of parishes from which bodies are brought.
   53.     Accounts of interments in consecrated part of cemetery.
   54.     Account of payments due to incumbents of parishes.
   55.     Payments to be made to incumbents of parishes half-yearly.
   56.     Apportioned payments to incumbent.
   57.     Prescribed sum payable to parish clerk.
   59.     Disturbances and nuisances in cemetery.
   60.     Annual accounts.
   62.     1845 c.20, incorporated as to damages, &c.
   66.     Copies of special Act to be open to inspection.
   67.     Penalty on company failing to keep or deposit such copies.
   68.     Saving as to future Acts.

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