{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-miscellaneous-provisions-northern-ireland-order-1985/article-36",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1985/1208",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-miscellaneous-provisions-northern-ireland-order-1985",
  "path": "article/36",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Minor amendments relating to burial grounds of councils",
  "text": "(1) The following statutory provisions (which prohibit the appropriation of land within one hundred yards of a dwelling house as a burial ground without the written consent of the owner) shall cease to have effect, namely—\n(a) section 10 of the 1847 c. 65 Cemeteries Clauses Act 1847 (including that section as incorporated with any other Act);\n(b) in section 174 of the 1878 c. 52 Public Health (Ireland) Act 1878 the words from “but no ground” to the end.\n(2) At the end of Part III of the Public Health (Ireland) Act 1878 there shall be inserted the following section—\n“Interpretation of Part III.\n199A In this Part—\n“burial ground” means any place for the interment of the dead, including any part of any such place set aside for the interment of a dead person's ashes;\n“statutory provision” has the meaning assigned to it by section 1(f) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954,”.\n(3) Sections 189 and 190 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act 1878 (which have been superseded by provisions of the principal Act) and section 29 of the 1898 c. 37 Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 (which is spent) are hereby repealed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1985/1208/article/36",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:48:46.222436+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."
}