Cemeteries Clauses Act 1847

The Cemeteries Clauses Act 1847 (10 & 11 Vict c 65) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The Cemeteries Clauses Act 1847[1]
Long titleAn Act for consolidating in One Act certain Provisions usually contained in Acts authorizing the making of Cemeteries.
Citation10 & 11 Vict c 65
Dates
Royal assent9 July 1847
Status: Amended
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended

Section 10 - Cemetery not to be within a certain distance of houses

This section was repealed by section 272(1) of, and Schedule 30 to, the Local Government Act 1972.

Section 58 -

This section was repealed by section 11(8) of, and Part II of the Schedule to, the Criminal Damage Act 1971.

Section 59 - Penalty on persons committing nuisances in the cemetery

Proposal for repeal

In 1985, the Law Commission said that this offence was no longer used and recommended that it be repealed.[2]

Section 61 - Tender of amends

This section was repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1894.

Section 63 - In Ireland, part of penalty to be paid to Guardians of Unions

This section was repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1875.

Section 65 - Persons giving false evidence liable to penalties of perjury

This section was repealed, so far as it applied to England,[3] by section 17 of, and the Schedule to the Perjury Act 1911.

Section 69 - Act may be amended, etc.

This section was repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1875.

References
  1. The citation of this Act by this short title is authorised by section 4 of this Act.
  2. The Law Commission. Criminal Law: Offences against Religion and Public Worship. Law Com 145. HMSO. London. 1985. Paragraph 3.25 at page 39.
  3. Including Wales and Berwick


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