New Parishes Measure 1943 (repealed)

Burial Grounds U.K.

20 Provisions as to burial ground common to two or more districts. U.K.

(1) Where land is acquired by the [F1 diocesan board of finance] for the purpose of a burial ground for two or more ecclesiastical districts, it shall be lawful for the [F1 diocesan board of finance] in accepting the conveyance of the land to direct by the conveyance or any other instrument under [F2 its] seal that any chapel erected on the land for the performance of the burial service, and any lodge or other building erected thereon, and any access to or from the chapel or any such building shall be for the use of each of the districts.

(2) The incumbent of each such district shall, subject to such regulations as may be made by the bishop, be entitled to use the chapel for the performance of the burial service, and the like fees shall be chargeable as would have been chargeable had the burial service been performed in the church of the district and the burial taken place in a burial ground belonging solely to that district.

(3) If after the consecration of such a burial ground additional land adjoining or near to it is acquired by the [F1 diocesan board of finance] as a burial ground for any of the districts for which the original burial ground was acquired or for any other ecclesiastical district, the chapel may, subject to such regulations as aforesaid, be used for the performance of the burial service in the case of persons to be buried in the additional ground, and every such lodge or other building and approach or access as aforesaid may similarly be used.

(4) The freehold of the chapel on the consecration thereof and the freehold of any such lodge, buildings and means of access on the erection or construction thereof shall vest in the bishop:

Provided that such vesting shall not impose on the bishop any liabilities for the maintenance of any such chapel, lodge, building or means of access.

(5) The [F1 diocesan board of finance] may in any case, and shall, if different parts of the land were acquired by [F3 it] for the use of the several districts, apportion the burial ground exclusive of such chapel, lodge, buildings and means of access, amongst the several districts.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 20 substituted (1.9.2010) by Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 2010 (No. 1), s. 13(2), Sch. 1 para. 7(a); S.I. 2010/2, art. 3, Sch. 2

F2 Word in s. 20(1) substituted (1.9.2010) by Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 2010 (No. 1), s. 13(2), Sch. 1 para. 7(b); S.I. 2010/2, art. 3, Sch. 2

F3 Word in s. 20(5) substituted (1.9.2010) by Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 2010 (No. 1), s. 13(2), Sch. 1 para. 7(c); S.I. 2010/2, art. 3, Sch. 2

21 Power of [F4 diocesan board of finance] to declare land outside district acquired as burial ground to be part of district. U.K.

Where the [F5 diocesan board of finance] acquire, by gift or purchase, for a new or additional burial ground land not within the limits of the ecclesiastical district or districts for the use of which the land has been acquired, it shall be lawful for the [F5 diocesan board of finance] in accepting the conveyance of the land to declare in the conveyance, or by any other instrument under [F6 its] seal, that the land, after consecration thereof as a burial ground, shall be deemed for ecclesiastical purposes (including the purpose of determining the right of burial therein) to be part of the district or districts for the use of which it has been so acquired; and after consecration the land shall for such purposes as aforesaid be deemed to be part of the district or districts according to the said declaration.

Textual Amendments

F4 Words in s. 21 substituted (1.9.2010) by virtue of Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 2010 (No. 1), s. 13(2), Sch. 1 para. 8(a); 2010 No. 2, art. 3, Sch. 2

F5 Words in s. 21 substituted (1.9.2010) by Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 2010 (No. 1), s. 13(2), Sch. 1 para. 8(b); S.I. 2010/2, art. 3, Sch. 2

F6 Word in s. 21 substituted (1.9.2010) by Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 2010 (No. 1), s. 13(2), Sch. 1 para. 8(c); S.I. 2010/2, art. 3, Sch. 2

22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F7 U.K.

Textual Amendments

F7 S. 22 repealed with saving by Pastoral Measure 1968 (No. 1, SIF 21:4), Sch. 8 para. 2, Sch. 9

23, 24. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F8 U.K.

Textual Amendments

F8 Ss. 23, 24 repealed by Pastoral Measure 1968 (No. 1, SIF 21:4), Sch. 9

25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F9 U.K.

Textual Amendments

F9 S. 25 repealed with saving by Marriage Act 1949 (c. 76, SIF 49:1), s. 79, Sch. 5 Pt. II and Pastoral Measure 1968 (No. 1, SIF 21:4), Sch. 9

26 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F10 U.K.

Textual Amendments

F10 Ss. 26, 27, 30 repealed by Pastoral Measure 1968 (No. 1, SIF 21:4), Sch. 9