Cemeteries Clauses Act 1847

1847 CHAPTER 65

An Act for consolidating in One Act certain Provisions usually contained in Acts authorizing the making of Cemeteries.

[9th July 1847]

WHEREAS it is expedient to comprise in One Act sundry Provisions usually contained in Acts of Parliament authorizing the making of Cemeteries, and that as well for avoiding the Necessity of repeating such Provisions in each of the several Acts relating to such Undertakings as for insuring greater Uniformity in the Provisions themselves : Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That this Act shall extend only to such Cemeteries as shall be authorized by any Act of Parliament hereafter to be passed which shall declare that this Act shall be incorporated therewith, and all the Clauses of this Act, save so far as they shall be expressly varied or excepted in any such Act, shall apply to the Cemetery authorized thereby, so far as they are applicable to such Cemetery, and shall, with the Clauses of every other Act incorporated therewith, form Part of such Act, and be construed therewith as forming One Act. And with respect to the Construction of this Act and any Act incorporated therewith, be it enacted as follows :