A manual of hygiene, public and private, and compendium of sanitary laws : for the information and guidance of public health authorities, officers of health, and sanitarians generally / by Charles A. Cameron.

Date:
1874
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Credit: A manual of hygiene, public and private, and compendium of sanitary laws : for the information and guidance of public health authorities, officers of health, and sanitarians generally / by Charles A. Cameron. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Lord Lieutenant in Council may po-itpone order for discon- tinuance of burials, Sc. Order not to extend to burial grounds of Quakers unless expressly iiicludud. Penalty on persons burying contrary to the provisions of Orders in Council. Saving of cer- tain rights to bury in vaults. should be wholly discontinued, or should be discontinued subject to any exception or qualification, it shall be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant.^ by and with the advice of her Majesty's Privy Council in Ireland, to order that no new burial ground shall be opened in any city or town, or within such limits, without such previous approval, or (as the case may require) that alter a time mentioned in the order burials in such city or town or withm such limits, or in such burial grounds or places of burial, shall be discontinued wholly, or subject to any exceptions or qualifications mentioned in such orders, and so from time to time as circumstances- may require: provided always, that notice of such representation, and of the time when it shall please the Lord Lieutenants to order the same to be taken into consideration by the Privy Council, shall be published in the Dublin Gazette, and shall be affixed on the doors of the churches or chapels of or on some other conspicuous places within the parishes affected by such representation, one month before such representation is so considered. 6. It shall be lawful for the Lord Lieutenants by and with the advice of the Privy Council, a to postpone the time appointed by any order in Council for the discontinuance of burials, or otherwise to vary any order in Council made under this act (whether the time thereby appointed for the discontinuance of burials thereunder or other operation of such order shall or shall not have aiuived) as to the Lord Lieutenants in Council shall seem fit; and every order of the Lord Lieutenants in Council made for varying any order previously made under this act shall be deemed valid and effectual in law. 7. No such order in Council as aforesaid shall be deemed to extend to any burial ground of the people called Quakers, used solely for the burial of the bodies of such people, unless the same shall be expressly mentioned in such order ; and nothing in this act shall prevent the burial in any such burial ground in which for the time being interment is not required to be discontinued of the bodies of such people. 8. [Exempts Peter-street and Merrion-row (Dublin) burial grounds.] 9. If any person after the time mentioned in any order in Council under this act for the discontinuance of burials shall knowingly and wilfully bury any body, or in anywise act or assist in the burial of any body, in or under any church, chapel, churchyard, burial ground or place of burial, or elsewhere, as the case may be, within the limits in which burials have by such order been ordered to be disconiinued, in violation of the provisions of any such order, every person so offending shall, upon summary conviction thereof, forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds. 10. Provided always, that, notwithstanding any such order in Council, where, by virtue of any faculty legally granted, or by usage or other- wise, there is at the time of the passing of this act any usage or right of interment in or under any church or chapel affected by such order, or in any vault of any such church or chapel, or of any churchyard or burial ground affected by such order, and where any exclusive right of interment in any such burial ground has been purchased or acquired before the passing of this act, it shall be lawful for the Lord Lieutenants from time to time, on application being made to him, and on being satisfied that the exercise of such right shall not be injurious to health, to grant a licence for the exercise of such right, during such time and subject to such conditions and restrictions as the Lord Lieutenant s may think fit; but such licence shall not prejudice or in anywise affect the authority of the ordinary or of any other person who if this act had not been passed might have prohibited or controlled interment under such right, nor dispense with any consent which would have been required under such right, nor otherwise give to such right any greater