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Section 1 Bodies corporate may sell portions of land adjoining cemeteries for enlarging thereof;

It shall and may be lawful for any spiritual or ecclesiastical body corporate or spiritual person, being a corporation sole, possessing any land adjacent to any cemetery, churchyard, or burying ground, to sell, by indenture of bargain and sale, inrolled in the F1High Court within six calendar months, for the purpose of consecration, such portion thereof as may be deemed necessary for enlarging any such cemetery, churchyard, or burying ground not exceeding one acre.

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Words substituted by virtue of Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925 (c. 49) s. 224(1)