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PUBLIC HEALTH (IRELAND) ACT 1878 - SECT 161

District council to be burial board.

161. Every burial ground heretofore vested in a board of guardians by the
Commissioners of Church Temporalities in Ireland shall be transferred to and
shall vest in the burial board as constituted by this Act of the district
within which it is situate, subject to all rights, liabilities, and
obligations affecting the same, and any burial ground hereafter to be vested
by the said Commissioners in a burial board shall be vested by them in the
burial board of the district in which such burial ground shall be situate,
anything to the contrary heretofore enacted notwithstanding.

All burial grounds and all property, real and personal, including all
interests, rights, and easements in, to, and out of property, real and
personal (including things in action), heretofore belonging to or vested in
any burial board under the Burial Grounds Acts shall be transferred to and
vest in the burial board (as constituted by this Act) of the district within
which the same are situate, subject to all rights, debts, liabilities, and
obligations affecting the same.

Provided, that every burial ground heretofore acquired by any burial board
under the provisions of the Burial Grounds Acts, or of any local Act, situate
wholly or in part without the limits of the district of such burial board,
shall for all the purposes of this Act be deemed to be situate wholly within
the limits of the district of such burial board.

All such property shall be held by such burial board upon trust for the
district or several places respectively within its jurisdiction as a
burial board under this Act.


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