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Burial Act 1857
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XVISection 4 of 52G.3 c.146 not to apply to Burials in Grounds provided under the Burial Acts.
Whereas by the Act of the Fifty-second Year of King George the Third, Chapter One hundred and forty-six, Section Four, it is provided, that whenever the Ceremony of Burial shall be performed in any other Place than the Parish Church or Churchyard of any Parish (or the Chapel or Chapelyard of any Chapelry providing its own distinct Registers), and such Ceremony shall be performed by any Minister not being the Rector, Vicar, Minister, or Curate of such Parish or Chapelry, the Minister who shall perform such Ceremony of Burial shall on the same or on the next Day transmit to the Rector, Vicar, or other Minister of such Parish or Chapelry, or his Curate, a Certificate of such Burial, and the Rector, Vicar, Minister, or Curate of such Parish or Chapelry shall thereupon enter such Burial according to such Certificate in the Book kept pursuant to that Act for such Purpose : And whereas distinct Registers are by Law required to be kept in the Burial Grounds provided under the Burial Acts : The recited Enactment of the said Act of King George' the Third shall not apply in any Case where the Ceremony of Burial is performed in a Burial Ground provided or to be provided under the Acts of Her Majesty herein-before recited and this Act, or any of them.
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