# Burial Act 1855, Section 2: Penalty on persons burying contrary to the provisions of Orders in Council.


If any person, after the time mentioned in any Order in Council under the said Acts or any of them, or this Act, for the discontinuance of burials, shall knowingly and wilfully bury any body or in anywise act or assist in the burial of any body in any church, chapel, churchyard, burial ground, or place of burial, or (as the case may be) within the limits in which burials have by such Orders been ordered to be discontinued, in violation of the provisions of any such Order, every person so offending shall, upon summary conviction before two justices of the peace, forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds.level 1 on the standard scale

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/18-19/128/section/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/burial-act-1855/section-2
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