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Section 59 Penalty on persons committing nuisances in the cemetery.C1

Every person who shall play at any game or sport, or discharge firearms, save at a military funeral, in the cemetery, or who shall wilfully and unlawfully disturb any persons assembled in the cemetery for the purpose of burying any body therein, or who shall commit any nuisance within the cemetery, shall forfeit F1. . . for every such offence a sum not exceeding F2F3£10level 1 on the standard scale.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words repealed by Justices of the Peace Act 1949 (c. 101), Sch. 7 Pt. III

F2

"level 1 on the standard scale" substituted (E.W.S.) for "£10" by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), ss. 38, 46 and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), ss. 289F, 289G

F3

Words substituted by Criminal Justice Act 1967 (c. 80), s. 92, Sch. 3 Pt. I

Modifications

C1

S. 59 incorporated and applied (S.) by Burial Grounds (Scotland) Act 1855 (c. 68), s. 25