# Cemeteries Clauses Act 1847, Section 20: Penalty for allowing water to be fouled.


If the company at any time cause or suffer to be brought or to flow into any stream, canal, reservoir, aqueduct, pond, or watering place, any offensive matter from the cemetery, whereby the water therein shall be fouled, they shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of fifty pounds.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/65/section/20 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/cemeteries-clauses-act-1847/section-20
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