{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cemeteries-clauses-act-1847/section-59",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cemeteries-clauses-act-1847/section-59.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/10-11/65",
  "legislation_title": "Cemeteries Clauses Act 1847",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cemeteries-clauses-act-1847",
  "path": "section/59",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "59",
  "heading": "Penalty on persons committing nuisances in the cemetery.",
  "text": "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 . . . for every such offence a sum not exceeding £10level 1 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Justices of the Peace Act 1949 (c. 101), Sch. 7 Pt. III"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "\"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"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by Criminal Justice Act 1967 (c. 80), s. 92, Sch. 3 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 59 incorporated and applied (S.) by Burial Grounds (Scotland) Act 1855 (c. 68), s. 25"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/65/section/59",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:30:39.399657+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}