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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    Assessment to local rates not to be increiised after purchase for the purposes of this or auy former Act. Burial Board may let land not required for burials. Burial Board to keep in order closed burial grounds, &c. Not to apply to private mausoleums. 38. No land already or hereafter to be purchased or acquired under the provisions of this act, for the purpose of a burial ground (with or without any building erected or to be erected thereon), shall, while used for such purposes, be assessed to any county, parochial, or other local rates at a higher value or more improved rent than the value or rent at which the same was assessed at the time of such purchase or acquisition. 39. It shall be lawful for any burial board, with the sanction of the Lord Lieutenant.^ and subject to regulations approved of by him, to let any land purchased by and invested in them under this act, and which has not been consecrated, and in which no body has been at any time interred, and which is not for the time being required for the purposes of a burial ground, in such manner and on such terms as such board may see fit, but so, nevertheless, that power shall be reserved to such board to resume any such land which may be required for the purposes afore- said upon giving six months notice. 40. In every case in which any order in council has been or shall hereafter be issued for the discontinuance of burials in any churchyard or burial ground, the burial board shall maintain such churchyard or burial ground in decent order, and also do the necessary repair of the walls and other fences thereof; and the costs and expenses shall be repaid out of the rates by this act authorised, unless there shall be some other fund legally chargeable with costs and expenses. 41. [Applies only to Limerick Cemetery.] 42. The provisions of this act shall not apply to any private and ex- clusive family mausoleum or burial place not being within the limits of any public burial ground. Approval'of Secretary of State to appoint- ment of burial, board. Act to be construed with acts in schedule Short title. BURIAL GROUNDS ACT, 1871. 34 and 35 Vict., Cap. 33. An Act to explain and amend the Burial Acts. [2m June, 1871.] 1. Where the approval of one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State to the appointment of a burial board by a vestry or meeting in the nature of a vestry is required under the burial acts, such vestry or meeting in the nature of a vestry shall not, after the passing of this act, appoint such board until a resolution of such vesiry or meeting, declaring the expediency of such appointment, has been passed, and notice thereof sent to one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, (J and the same has been approved of by the Secretary of State, and approval of such resolution shall be deemed to be approval of the appointment of the board. The Secretary of State before giving such approval may require notice of such resolution, in such form and containing such particulars as he may direct, to be published in such manner as he may think sufficient for giving notice thereof to all persons interested. Provided that where the approval of one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State has been given before the passing of this act to the appointment of any burial board, that approval shall be valid whether it has been given before or after the date of such appoint- ment. 2. This act shall be construed as one with the acts mentioned in the schedule to this act, and those acts and this act may be cited together as the Burial Acts, 1852 to 1871, c and each of them may be cited as the Burial Act of the year it which it was passed. a Local Government Board acts instead of Council, b In Ireland the Locai Government Board. cMost of wbicli are not applicable to Ireland.