Burial Act 1855

XIII Provision for Expenses of Burial Boards of Places not separately maintaining their own Poor.

Where any District (whether a Parish or Township or other Subdivision) not separately maintaining its own Poor, but forming Part of a Parish maintaining its own Poor, or of an Incorporation" or other Union maintaining the Poor of the Places comprised therein, by means of a common Rate, shall have a Burial Board, or shall form Part of a Place or Union of Places not co-extensive with the Area rated for the Relief of the Poor, and having One Burial Board, it shall be lawful for such respective Burial Board to issue their Certificate to the Overseers of such Parish, or the Overseers or other Persons authorized to make and collect or cause to be collected such common Rate (as the Case may be), for Payment of the Sums required for the Expenses of such Burial Board, or, where such District not separately maintaining its own Poor forms Part only of the Area of the Burial Board, of the Sums required in respect of the Portion of such Expenses to be borne by such District, in like Manner as if such District had been a Parish separately maintaining its own Poor, and such Overseers or Persons authorized as aforesaid had been the Overseers thereof; and such Overseers or Persons shall pay such Sums as shall be required by such Certificate, according to the Directions of such Burial Board, and shall levy such Sums as may be required for such Payments to the Burial Board by an Addition to the Parish Rate or common Rate, so far as the same affects the District in respect of which such Payments are required, or by separate Rates to be made from Time to Time on such District; and for levying such Additions or separate Rates as aforesaid such Overseers or other Persons shall have the Powers, Remedies, and Privileges, and proceed in the same Manner, as in the Case of the Rates for the Relief of the Poor ; provided that any such Rates may (notwithstanding any Restriction in relation to the Parish Rate or common Rate) be made and levied at such Times as may be necessary to provide for the Payments aforesaid.