Highgate Cemetery Act 2022

9Repeals and savingsU.K.

(1)Subject to subsection (2), the following enactments are repealed so far as they relate to the cemetery—

(a)the 1836 Act;

(b)the Act of the sixth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, entitled “An Act for amending the Act establishing “The London Cemetery Company”; and

(c)the London Cemetery Company Act 1911.

(2)Sections 118 and 119 of the 1836 Act are repealed so far as they relate to the cemetery on the date on which byelaws made under section 8 come into operation.

(3)The LCC shall cease to exist and all property and all rights, liabilities, interests, privileges and functions vested in the LCC in respect of the cemetery shall be vested in the Trust as if in all respects the Trust were the same person as the LCC.

(4)Notwithstanding the repeals under subsection (1), anything done (or having effect as if done) by the LCC in connection with the operation, management or improvement of the cemetery, including without limitation the grant of any burial rights, has effect, so far as necessary for continuing its effect after the commencement of this Act, as if done by the Trust on the date it was done by the LCC.

Commencement Information

I1S. 9 in force at 21.4.2022, see s. 1