Burial Act 1855

VI Sanction of Vestry not required for Expenditure and other Acts of Burial Board in certain Cases.

If the Vestry of any Parish shall refuse or neglect to authorize the Expenditure of such Sums as the Burial Board of such Parish shall have declared to be necessary for providing and laying out a Burial Ground, and building the necessary Chapel or Chapels therein, it shall be lawful for such Burial Board to represent such Refusal or Neglect to One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State ; and in case it shall appear to the Secretary of State, after Inquiry into the Circumstances of the Case, that the Burial Board are unable to provide such Burial Ground, or to proceed effectually in the Execution of their Duties, by reason of such Refusal or Neglect, it shall be lawful for such Secretary of State, by Warrant under his Hand, to authorize such Burial Board, without further Authority, Sanction, or Approval of or by such Vestry, to expend such Sums of Money for providing and laying out a Burial Ground, and building the necessary Chapel or Chapels thereon, and to borrow and charge such Money for all or any of such Purposes, and to enter into and make such Contracts and Purchases, and do such other Acts as under the Sections Nineteen, Twenty, Twenty-six, and Forty-two of the said Act of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Years of Her Majesty might have been expended, borrowed, and charged, entered into, made, and done with the Authority, Approval, and Sanction of such Vestry, subject, nevertheless, to such Limitation of Amount or other Limitation or Restriction as such Secretary of State may by his Warrant prescribe; and all Acts done in pursuance of such Warrant shall be as valid and effectual as if the Authority, Approval, and Sanction of such Vestry had in every Case been obtained.