Burial Grounds (Scotland) Act 1855 (repealed)
Burial Grounds (Scotland) Act 1855 (repealed) (1855 c. 68)
- Burial Grounds (Scotland) Act 1855 (repealed) (1855 c. 68)
- 1 Short title.
- 2 Parochial board to carry into execution this Act.
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- 4 Proceedings on complaints of danger to health.
- 5 On representation of Secretary of State, Her Majesty in Council may restrain the opening of new burial grounds, and order discontinuance of burials in specified places.
- 6 Penalties.
- 7 Order not to extend to burial grounds of Quakers or Jews, unless expressly included.
- 8 Saving of certain rights to bury in vaults, &c.
- 9 Upon requisition of ratepayers or members of parochial board, meeting of parochial board to be convened to determine whether burial ground shall be provided.
- 10 When burial grounds are closed by Order in Council, board to provide suitable burial grounds, &c.
- 11 Consent of owners of houses to new burial grounds where necessary.
- 12 Board may purchase land for cemeteries, or contracts with cemetery companies.
- 13 Certain provisions of 8 & 9 Vict. c. 19. incorporated with this Act.
- 14 Parochial boards may concur in providing a burial ground for the common use of their parishes.
- 15 Burial ground to be the burial ground of the parish or parishes for which it is provided.
- 16 Liabilities of old burial grounds transferred to new burial grounds.
- 17 Management to be vested in parochial boards.
- 18 Boards may sell exclusive rights of burial, and right to erect monuments, &c.
- 19 Boards may make arrangements for facilitating the conveyance of bodies to burial grounds
- 20 Places may be provided for reception of bodies until interment.
- 21 Secretary of State may make regulations as to burial grounds, &c.
- 22 Exemption of burials from toll.
- 23 Board may lay out and embellish burial ground.
- 24 Board to fix payments for interments in burial ground.
- 25 Certain provisions of 10 & 11 Vict. c 65. incorporated with this Act.
- 26 Expenses to be paid by assessments.
- 27 Power to borrow money.
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- 29, 30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- 31 Register of burials to be kept in every ground provided under this Act. Registers to be evidence.
- 32 Sheriffs’ decisions to be final.
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