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PUBLIC HEALTH (IRELAND) ACT 1878 - SECT 170

New burial grounds not to be opened contrary to order.

170. Where by usage or otherwise any grave, vault, or place of interment in
any burial ground or cemetery has been the burying place of and used as such
by any family, no corpse of any person not having been a member of such family
shall be buried in such grave, vault, or place of interment without the
consent in writing of some immediate relative of the member of such family
last interred therein; and if any person shall knowingly act or assist in any
burial contrary to the provisions of this section, every such person shall be
liable, on summary conviction before a court of summary jurisdiction, to a
penalty not exceeding ten pounds; and upon any complaint made under this
section it shall be lawful for the court to make such order for the exhumation
and re-interment of such corpse so buried as to such court shall seem fit.


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