# Cemeteries Clauses Act 1847, Section 59: Penalty on persons committing nuisances in the cemetery.


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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/65/section/59 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/cemeteries-clauses-act-1847/section-59
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