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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cemeteries-clauses-act-1847/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cemeteries-clauses-act-1847/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/10-11/65",
  "legislation_title": "Cemeteries Clauses Act 1847",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cemeteries-clauses-act-1847",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act for consolidating in One Act certain Provisions usually contained in Acts authorizing the making of Cemeteries.\n[9th July 1847]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act excluded as to local authorities by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 26 para. 14(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1891 (c. 67)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "References to clerk of the peace of the county to be construed (E.W.) as references to proper officer of the county council: Courts Act 1971 (c. 23, SIF 37), s. 56, Sch. 8 para. 1 and Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70, SIF 81:1), s. 251, Sch. 29 Pt. I para. 4(1)(b) and for any reference to the clerk of the peace of, or for, a county there is substituted (N.I.) a reference to the chief clerk for a county court division and for any reference to a clerk of the peace there is substituted (N.I.) a reference to a chief clerk, by S.R. (N.I.) 19/9/103, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force at Royal Assent"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/65/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:30:39.399657+00:00"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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