Cemeteries Clauses Act 1847

Protection of cemetery U.K.

And with respect to the protection of the cemetery, be it enacted as follows:

F1 58 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . U.K.

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 58 repealed by Criminal Damage Act 1971 (c. 48), Sch. Pt. II and S.I. 1977/426, Sch. 2

59 Penalty on persons committing nuisances in the cemetery. U.K.

Every person who shall play at any game or sport, or discharge firearms, save at a military funeral, in the cemetery, or who shall wilfully and unlawfully disturb any persons assembled in the cemetery for the purpose of burying any body therein, or who shall commit any nuisance within the cemetery, shall forfeit F2 . . . for every such offence a sum not exceeding [F3 [F4 £10]][F3 level 1 on the standard scale].

Textual Amendments

F2 Words repealed by Justices of the Peace Act 1949 (c. 101), Sch. 7 Pt. III

F3 "level 1 on the standard scale" substituted (E.W.S.) for "£10" by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), ss. 38, 46 and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), ss. 289F, 289G

F4 Words substituted by Criminal Justice Act 1967 (c. 80), s. 92, Sch. 3 Pt. I

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 59 incorporated and applied (S.) by Burial Grounds (Scotland) Act 1855 (c. 68), s. 25

60 Annual accounts to be made up, and a copy transmitted to the clerk of the peace, &c., and be open to inspection. U.K.

And with respect to the accounts to be kept by the company, be it enacted, that the company shall every year cause an account to be prepared, showing the total receipt and expenditure of all monies levied by virtue of this or the special Act for the year ending on the thirty-first day of December, or some other convenient day in each year, under the several distinct heads of receipt and expenditure, with a statement of the balance of such account, certified by the chairman of the company, and duly audited, and shall send a copy of the said account, free of [F5 charge, to the clerk of the peace for the county in which the cemetery is situated][F5 charge, to the chief clerk], on or before the expiration of one month from the day on which such accounts end, which last-mentioned account shall be open to the inspection of the public at all reasonable hours, on payment of the sum of [F6 5p]for every such inspection; and if the company omit to prepare or send such account as aforesaid, they shall forfeit for every such omission the sum of [F7 twenty pounds][F7 level 2 on the standard scale].

Textual Amendments

F5 Words in s. 60 substituted (N.I.) (31.10.2016) by Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 9), s. 106(2), Sch. 1 para. 16(2) (with Sch. 8 para. 1); S.R. 2016/387, art. 2(k) (with art. 3)

F6 Words substituted by virtue of Decimal Currency Act 1969 (c. 19), s. 10(1)

F7 "level 2 on the standard scale" substituted (E.W.) for "twenty pounds" by virtue of Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 46

F8 61 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . U.K.

Textual Amendments

F8 S. 61 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1894 (c. 56)