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Regulation 35 Cemeteries

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(1)

Nothing in the order shall affect any right of burial, to construct a walled grave or vault or to place and maintain, or to put any additional inscription on, a tombstone or other memorial which any person may have acquired before the appointed day or affect the amount of any fee payable by him in respect of any such right.

(2)

This paragraph shall have effect where an area (hereinafter referred to as “the transferred area”) is transferred by the order from an area for which a cemetery to which the Local Authorities' Cemeteries Order 1974f1 applies has been provided (hereinafter referred to as “the cemetery area”).

In the period of 25 years beginning on the appointed day—

(a)

any inhabitant or parishioner of the transferred area shall be entitled to the same rights of burial as the inhabitants or parishioners of the cemetery area as altered;

(b)

any provisions in relation to inhabitants or parishioners in any table of fees in force in respect of the cemetery shall apply to the inhabitants or parishioners of the transferred area as they apply to the inhabitants or parishioners of the cemetery area as altered;

(c)

no differential charges shall be imposed on the inhabitants or parishioners of the transferred area.

(3)

Subject to paragraph (2), any provisions in relation to inhabitants or parishioners of any area which is altered by the order in any table of fees in force in respect of any cemetery to which the Local Authorities' Cemeteries Order 1974 applies shall apply to the inhabitants or parishioners of the area as altered.

(4)

In the area in which the Church of England was disestablished by the Welsh Church Act 1914 the references in this regulation to inhabitants and parishioners shall be read as references to inhabitants.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

(1974 I, p. 2489).