Cemeteries Clauses Act 1847

Exclusive Rights of Burial

And with respect to exclusive Rights of Burial, and Monumental Inscriptions, in the Cemetery, be it enacted as follows;

XL Parts of the Cemetery may be set apart for exclusive Burial. Monumental Inscriptions.

The Company may set apart such Parts of the Cemetery as they think fit for the Purpose of granting exclusive Rights of Burial therein, and they may sell, either in perpetuity or for a limited Time, and subject to such Conditions as they think fit, the exclusive Right of Burial in any Parts of the Cemetery so set apart, or the Right of One or more Burials therein, and they may sell the Right of placing any Monument or Gravestone in the Cemetery, or any Tablet or monumental Inscription on the Walls of any Chapel or other Building within the Cemetery.

XLI Plan and Book of Reference to be kept, and be open to Inspection.

The Company shall cause a Plan of the Cemetery to he made upon a Scale sufficiently large to show the Situation of every Burial Place in all the Parts of the Cemetery so set apart, arid in which an exclusive Right of Burial has been granted; and all such Burial Places shall be numbered, and such Numbers shall be entered in a Book to be kept for that Purpose, and such Book shall contain the Names and Descriptions of the several Persons to whom the exclusive Right of Burial in any such Place of: Burial has been granted by the Company; and no place of burial exclusive Right of Burial therein, shall be made in the Cemetery without the same being marked out in such Plan, and a corresponding Entry made in the said Book, and the said Plan and Book shall be kept by the Clerk of the Company.

XLII Form of Grant of Burial in Vault, &c. to be according to Schedule.

The Grant of the exclusive Right of Burial in any Part of the Cemetery, either in perpetuity or for a limited Time, and of the Right of One or more Burials therein, or of placing therein any Monument, Tablet, or Gravestone, may be made in the Form in the Schedule to this Act annexed, or to the like Effect, and where the Company are not incorporated it may be executed by the Company or any Two or more of them.

XLIII Register of Grants to be kept.

A Register of all such Grants shall be kept by the Clerk to the Company, and within Fourteen Days after the Date of any such Grant an Entry or Memorial of the Date thereof and of the Parties thereto, and also of the Consideration for such Grant, and also a proper Description of the Ground described in such Grant, so as the Situation thereof may be ascertained, shall be made by the said Clerk in such Register; and such Clerk shall be entitled to demand such Sum as the Company think fit, not exceeding the prescribed Sum, or if no Sum be prescribed Two Shillings and Sixpence, for every such Entry or Memorial; and the said Register, may be perused at all reasonable Times by any Grantee or Assignee of any Right conveyed in any such Grant, upon Payment of the prescribed Sum, or if no Sum be prescribed the Sum of One Shilling, to the Clerk of the Company.

XLIV Rights of Burial, &c. to be assign able, or may be bequeathed by Will.

The exclusive Right of Burial & any such Place of Burial shall, whether granted in perpetuity or for a limited Time, be considered as the Personal Estate of the Grantee, and may be assigned in his Lifetime or bequeathed by his Will.

XLV Form of Assignment.

Every such Assignment made in the Lifetime of the Assignor shall be by; Deed duly stamped, in which the Consideration shall be duly set forth, and may; be in the Form in the Schedule to this Act annexed, or to the like Effect.

XLVI Assignments to be registered.

Every such Assignment shall, within Six Months after the Execution thereof, if executed Great Britain or Ireland, or within Six Months after the Arrival thereof in Great Britain or Ireland, if executed elsewhere, be produced to the Clerk of the Company, and an Entry or Memorial of such Assignment shall be made in the Register by the Clerk of the Company, in the same Manner as that of the Original Grant; and until such Entry or Memorial no Right of Burial shall be acquired under any such Memorial; and for every such Entry Or Memorial the Clerk shall be entitled to demand such Sum as the Company think fit, not exceeding the prescribed Sum, or if no Sum be prescribed Two Shillings and Sixpence.

XLVII Probates of Wills to be registered.

An Entry or Memorial of the Probate of every Will by which the exclusive Right of Burial within the Cemetery is bequeathed, and in case there be any specific Disposition of such exclusive Right of Burial in the said Will an Entry of such Disposition, shall, within Six Months after the Probate of such Will, be made in the said Register, in the same Manner as that of the original Grant, and until such Entry no Right of exclusive Burial shall be acquired under such Will; and for every such Entry or Memorial the Clerk of the Company shall be entitled to demand such Sum as the Company think fit, not exceeding the prescribed Sum, or if no Sum be prescribed Two Shillings and Sixpence.

XLVIII Vaults to be kept exclusively for Purchasers of exclusive Right.

No Body shall be buried in any Place wherein the exclusive Right of Burial shall have been granted by the Company, except with the Consent of the Owner for the Time being of such exclusive Right of Burial.

XLIX No such Grant to give the Right of Burial in consecrated Ground to certain Persons.

No such Grant as aforesaid shall give the Right to bury within the consecrated Part of the Cemetery the Body of any Person not entitled to be buried in consecrated Ground according to the Rites and Usage of the Established Church, or to place any Monument, Gravestone, Tablet, or monumental Inscription respecting any such Body within the consecrated Part of the Cemetery.

L Power to remove Monuments improperly erected.

The Company may take down and remove any Gravestone, Monument, Tablet, or monumental Inscription which shall have been placed within the Cemetery without their Authority,

LI Bishop to have Power to object to monumental Inscriptions in consecrated Part of Cemetery.

The Bishop of the Diocese in which the Cemetery is situated, and all Persons acting under his Authority, shall have the same Right and Power to object to the placing, and to and procure the Removal of any monumental Inscription within the consecrated Part of the Cemetery as he by Law has to object to or procure the Removal of any monumental Inscription in any Church or Chapel of the Established Church, or the Burial Ground belonging to such Church or Chapel, or any other consecrated Ground.