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And with respect to burials in the cemetery, be it enacted as follows:
The bishop of the diocese in which the cemetery is situated may, on the application of the company, consecrate any portion of the cemetery set apart for the burial of the dead according to the rites of the Established Church, if he be satisfied with the title of the company to such portion, and thinks fit to consecrate such portion; and the part which is so consecrated shall be used only for burials according to the rites of the Established Church.
The company shall define by suitable marks the consecrated and unconsecrated portions of the cemetery.
The company shall build, within the consecrated part of the cemetery, and according to a plan approved of by the bishop of the diocese, a chapel for the performance of the burial service according to the rites of the Established Church.
No body buried in the consecrated part of the cemetery shall be removed from its place of burial without the like authority as is by law required for the removal of any body buried in the churchyard belonging to a parish church.
[F1The company may] from time to time, with the approval of the bishop of the diocese in which the cemetery is situated, appoint a clerk in holy orders of the Established Church to officiate as chaplain in the consecrated part of the cemetery; and such chaplain shall be licensed by and be subject to the jurisdiction of the said bishop, and the said bishop shall have power to revoke any such licence, and to remove such chaplain, for any cause which appears to him reasonable.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 27 substituted (Provinces of Canterbury and York except Channel Islands and Isle of Man) (11.7.1992) by Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1992 (No. 1), s. 17(1), Sch. 3 Para.1;Instruments dated 27.5.1992 and 11.7.1992 made by Archbishops of Canterbury and York
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 27 saved as to City of London Cemetery by London Government Act 1963 (c. 33), s. 44(5)
The chaplain shall, when required, unless prevented by sickness or other reasonable cause, perform the burial service over all bodies brought to be buried in the consecrated part of the cemetery which are entitled to be buried in consecrated ground according to the rites and usage of the Established Church.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C2S. 28 saved as to City of London Cemetery by London Government Act 1963 (c. 33), s. 44(5)
Any clerk in holy orders of the Established Church, not being prohibited by the bishop, nor under ecclesiastical censure, at the request of the executor of the will of any deceased person, or any other person having the charge of the burial of the body of any deceased person, and with the consent of the chaplain for the time being of the cemetery, or if there be no chaplain with the consent of the bishop, may perform the said burial service over such body in the consecrated part of the cemetery.
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C3S. 29 saved as to City of London Cemetery by London Government Act 1963 (c. 33), s. 44(5)
The company, out of the monies to be received by virtue of this and the special Act, shall allow to the chaplain of the cemetery for the time being such a stipend as is approved of by the bishop of the diocese in which the cemetery is situated, which shall be payable by equal moieties, on the twenty-fifth day of March and the twenty-ninth day of September in each year; and if any chaplain die, resign, or be removed or appointed, in the interval between the half-yearly days of payment, the company shall pay to him, or his executors or administrators, a part only of the half-yearly payment of the stipend, proportioned to the time during which he shall have been the chaplain since the last preceding day of payment.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C4S. 30 saved as to City of London Cemetery by London Government Act 1963 (c. 33), s. 44(5)
Textual Amendments
F2S. 31 repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 PartVI.
All burials in the consecrated part of the cemetery shall be registered in register books to be provided by the company, and kept for that purpose by the chaplain, according to the laws in force by which registers are required to be kept by the rectors, vicars, or curates of parishes or ecclesiastical districts in England; and such register books, or copies or extracts therefrom, shall be received in all courts in evidence of such burials; [F3and copies or transcripts thereof shall be from time to time sent to the registrar of the ecclesiastical court of the bishop of the diocese in which the cemetery is situated, to be kept with the copies of the other register books of the parishes within his diocese.]
Textual Amendments
F3Words from "and copies" to the end repealed as respects provinces of Canterbury and York except the Channel Islands and Isle of Man, by Parochial Registers and Records Measure 1978 (No. 2, SIF 21:9), s. 26(2), Sch. 4
The said register books, so far as respects searches to be made therein, and copies and extracts to be taken therefrom, shall be subject to the same regulations as are provided by the M1Births and Deaths Registration Act 1836, so far as such regulations relate to register books of burials kept by any rector, vicar, or curate.]
Textual Amendments
F4S. 33 commencing "Section 35" substituted for s.33 commencing "The said register" as respects provinces of Canterbury and York except the Channel Islands and Isle of Man, by Parochial Registers and Records Measure 1978 (No. 2, SIF 21:9), s. 26(1), Sch. 3 para. 1
Marginal Citations
Section 35 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1836 (searches in register books of baptisms or burials), as in force immediately before the passing of the Ecclesiastical Fees Measure 1962, shall apply in relation to the register books kept under section 32 of this Act with the substitution for the reference to a rector, vicar or curate of a reference to the chaplain by whom the said books are kept.]
Textual Amendments
F5S. 33 commencing "Section 35" substituted for s.33 commencing "The said register" as respects provinces of Canterbury and York except the Channel Islands and Isle of Man, by Parochial Registers and Records Measure 1978 (No. 2, SIF 21:9), s. 26(1), Sch. 3 para. 1
The company may, with the consent of the chaplain for the time being, from time to time appoint a clerk to assist in performing the service for burials in the consecrated part of the cemetery, and allow to such clerk such stipend as they think proper out of the monies to be received by virtue of this and the special Act, and they may remove such clerk at their pleasure.
The company may set apart the whole or a portion of that part of the cemetery which is not set apart for burials according to the rites of the Established Church as a place of burial for the bodies of persons not being members of the Established Church, and may allow such bodies to be buried therein, under such regulations as the company appoint.
The company may allow, in any chapel built within the unconsecrated part of the cemetery, a burial service to be performed according to the rites of any church or congregation other than the Established Church, by any minister of such other church or congregation duly authorized by law to officiate in such church or congregation, or recognized as such by the religious community or society to which he belongs.
The company may appoint gravediggers and other servants necessary for the care and use of the cemetery, and may pay them such wages and allowances as they think fit out of the monies to be received by virtue of this and the special Act, and may remove them or any of them at their pleasure.
The company shall make regulations for ensuring that all burials within the cemetery are conducted in a decent and solemn manner.
No body shall be buried in any vault under any chapel of the cemetery, or within fifteen feet of the outer wall of any such chapel.
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