Cemeteries Clauses Act 1847

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The Cemeteries Clauses Act 1847[1]
Long title An Act for consolidating in One Act certain Provisions usually contained in Acts authorizing the making of Cemeteries.
Citation 10 & 11 Vict c 65
Dates
Royal assent 9 July 1847
Status: Amended
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended

The Cemeteries Clauses Act 1847 (10 & 11 Vict c 65) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Section 10 - Cemetery not to be within a certain distance of houses

This section was repealed by section 272(1) of, and Schedule 30 to, the Local Government Act 1972.

Section 58 -

This section was repealed by section 11(8) of, and Part II of the Schedule to, the Criminal Damage Act 1971.

Section 59 - Penalty on persons committing nuisances in the cemetery

Proposal for repeal

In 1985, the Law Commission said that this offence was no longer used and recommended that it be repealed.[2]

Section 61 - Tender of amends

This section was repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1894.

Section 63 - In Ireland, part of penalty to be paid to Guardians of Unions

This section was repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1875.

Section 65 - Persons giving false evidence liable to penalties of perjury

This section was repealed, so far as it applied to England,[3] by section 17 of, and the Schedule to the Perjury Act 1911.

Section 69 - Act may be amended, etc.

This section was repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1875.

See also

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References

  1. The citation of this Act by this short title is authorised by section 4 of this Act.
  2. The Law Commission. Criminal Law: Offences against Religion and Public Worship. Law Com 145. HMSO. London. 1985. Paragraph 3.25 at page 39.
  3. Including Wales and Berwick

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