Burial Act 1857
IApproval of a Majority of Vestries of Parishes sufficient for Acts done Boards acting for more than Two Parishes.
IIJoint Burial Boards may be dissolved.
IIIBurial Boards may provide more than One Burial Ground.
IVLocal Board of Health may, by Order in Council, be constituted a Burial Board.
VBurial Board may be established for a District not maintaining its own Poor, and which has had no separate Burial Ground.
VIOrdinary of Diocese may consecrate the whole or Part of Land belonging to any Parish for the Burial of poor Persons.
VIIProvision for Transfer to a Burial Board of a Burial Ground provided under Church Building Acts.
VIIIVestry of Parish in which Burial Ground is closed may purchase such Burial Ground if not belonging to Parish.
IXBurial Boards not to be appointed for united Parishes, &c. in Cases provided for by 18 & 19 Vict. c.128 without Consent of Secretary of State, where One of the Places separately maintains its own Poor or has a Burial Ground.
XOrders In Council may be made for regulating Burial Grounds, &c.
XINo Wall or Fence required between the consecrated and unconsecrated Portions of Burial Ground.
XIIAppeal.
XIIIPower to Incumbent or Curate to bury in Burial Ground certified by Secretary of State prior to Consecration.
XIVSection 32 of 3G.4 c.126, exempting Funerals from Tolls, extended to Funerals in Burial Grounds provided for the Parish, although not within its Limits.
XVPersons wilfully destroying, &c. Register Book of Burials guilty of Felony.
XVISection 4 of 52G.3 c.146 not to apply to Burials in Grounds provided under the Burial Acts.
XVIIFees for Service done in unconsecrated Portion of Burial Ground to be identical as for consecrated Portion.
XVIIISo much of Section 20 of 15& 16 Vict. c.85 as to Payment of Money borrowed repealed.
XIXClauses of 10 & 11 Vict. c.16 with respect to Mortgages incorporated.
XXSinking Fund to be provided for paying off Mortgages.
XXIPower to Burial Boards to borrow Money on terminable Annuities.
XXIIPower to Councils of Boroughs to make a separate Rate for Burial and Expenses.
XXIIIOrders in Council may be issued, on Representation of Secretary of State, so as to prevent Vaults, &c. being dangerous to Health.
XXIVTrustees of closed Cemeteries empowered, with Sanction of Secretary of State, to let, lease, or sell Portions thereof which have not received Interments.
XXVBodies not to be removed from Burial Grounds, save under Faculty, without Licence of Secretary of State.
XXVIBurial Boards may in certain Cases purchase Cemeteries which have been closed.
XXVII. Resolutions, &c. of Vestries not to be void by reason of Irregularity of Notices, &c.
XXVIII" Burial Board."
XXIXConstruction of certain Expressions used in 17 & 18 Vict. c.87.
XXXRecited Acts and this to be as One.

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Burial Act 1857

1857 CHAPTER 81

An Act to amend the Burial Acts.

WHEREAS an M1Act was passed in the Session holden in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Years of Her Majesty (Chapter Eighty-five), " to amend the Laws concerning the Burial " of the Dead in the Metropolis;" and an M2Act was passed in the Session holden in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Years of Her Majesty (Chapter One hundred and thirty-four), " to amend the Laws concerning the Burial of the Dead in England beyond the Limits of " the Metropolis, and to amend the Act concerning the Burial of "the Dead in the Metropolis;'' and an M3Act was passed in the Session holden in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of Her Majesty (Chapter Eighty-seven), " to make further Provision for the Burial " of the Dead in England beyond the Limits of the Metropolis ;" and M4Acts were passed in the Session holden in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Years of Her Majesty (Chapters Seventy-eight and One hundred and twenty-eight), " to amend the Laws concerning the " Burial of the Dead in England:" And whereas it is expedient to amend the said Acts:

Be it therefore 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, as follows: