SCHEDULE 26 Cemeteries and Crematoria
Provision and management of cemeteries
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Sections 15 F1. . . of the M1Public Health Act 1936 shall apply to the carrying out of works by the council of a district or London borough or the Common Council outside their respective areas for the purpose of a cemetery or crematorium as they apply to the construction of sewage disposal works by such a council outside their area.
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(1)
Subject to the provisions of any order made under section 214(3) above, the council of a district or London borough and the Common Council may make byelaws with respect to the management of any cemeteries provided by them and a parish F2. . . council or parish meeting may adopt for any cemetery provided by them any byelaws made under this paragraph by the district council and duly confirmed.
F3(1A)
Subject to the provisions of any order made under section 214(3) above, a Welsh principal council may make byelaws with respect to the management of any cemetery provided by them and a community council may adopt for any cemetery provided by them any byelaws made under this paragraph by the principal council and duly confirmed.
(2)
The confirming authority in relation to byelaws made under this paragraph shall be the Secretary of State.
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Until the first order under section 214(3) above takes effect, the M2Cemeteries Clauses Act 1847, except sections 15, 25, 27, 28, 30 to 35, 60, 66 and 67, shall be incorporated with this Act, but—
(a)
when the first order under that subsection takes effect, the said Act of 1847 shall cease to apply to cemeteries provided by local authorities, and
(b)
section 10 of that Act (cemeteries not to be within a certain distance of houses) shall cease to have effect on 1st April 1974.