The Public Health Act, 1875, (38 & 39 Vict., cap. 55) ; The Rivers Pollution Prevention Act, 1876, (39 & 40 Vict., cap. 75) ; The Public Health (Water) Act, 1878, (41 & 42 Vict., cap. 25) ; and the Public Health (Interments) Act, 1879, (42 & 43 Vict., cap. 31) / preceded by a complete index to the same by Frederic Stratton.

  • United Kingdom
Date:
1880
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Credit: The Public Health Act, 1875, (38 & 39 Vict., cap. 55) ; The Rivers Pollution Prevention Act, 1876, (39 & 40 Vict., cap. 75) ; The Public Health (Water) Act, 1878, (41 & 42 Vict., cap. 25) ; and the Public Health (Interments) Act, 1879, (42 & 43 Vict., cap. 31) / preceded by a complete index to the same by Frederic Stratton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    THE PUBLIC HEALTH (INTERMENTS) ACT, 1879. 42 & 43 Vict., Chapter 31. An Act to amend the Public Health Act, 1875, as to Interments. [21st July, 1879.] Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows; (that is to say,) Short Title and Construction. 1. This Act may be cited as the Public Health (Interments) Act, 1879, and shall be construed as one with the Public Health Act, 1875, in this Act called the principal Act. TJie Provisions of 38 &° 39 Vict. c. 55, extended to Cemeteries. 2. (1.) The provisions of the principal Act, as to a place for the reception of the dead before interment, in the principal Act called a mortuary, shall extend to a place for the interment of the dead, in this Act called a cemetery j and the purposes of the principal Act shall include the acquisition, construction, and maintenance of a cemetery. (2.) A local authority may acquire, construct, and maintain a cemetery either wholly or partly within or without their district, subject as to works without their district for the purpose of a cemetery to the provisions of the principal Act as to sewage works by a local authority without their district. (3.) A local authority may accept a donation of land for the pur- pose of a cemetery, and a donation of money or other property for enabling them to acquire, construct, or main- tain a cemetery. 10 & 11 Vict. c. 65, incorporated with this Act. tv, 3,AThe Cemeteries Clauses Act, 1847, shall be incorporated with