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Number 22 of 1952. | ||||||||||
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LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SANITARY SERVICES) (JOINT BURIAL BOARDS) ACT, 1952. | |||||||||
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Number 22 of 1952. | ||||||||||
LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SANITARY SERVICES) (JOINT BURIAL BOARDS) ACT, 1952. | ||||||||||
AN ACT TO REMOVE DOUBTS AS TO THE POWER OF JOINT BURIAL BOARDS TO ACQUIRE LAND COMPULSORILY. [10th December, 1952.] |
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:— | ||
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Definition of joint burial board. |
1. —In this Act the expression “joint burial board” means the governing body of a united district formed under the provisions of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878 which possesses the powers and is subject to the duties conferred and imposed on a burial board by the said Act. |
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Compulsory acquisition of land by a joint burial board. |
2. —In order to remove doubts it is hereby declared that the powers of a joint burial board include and have always included the powers of a sanitary authority acting as burial board for a sanitary district to acquire land compulsorily for the purposes of providing a new burial ground or making additions to a burial ground, and that every enactment which enables or for the time being enabled a sanitary authority so acting to acquire land compulsorily for such purposes is and has been applicable to a joint burial board and that such powers are and were exercisable accordingly. |
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Short title, construction and collective citation. |
3. —(1) This Act may be cited as the Local Government (Sanitary Services) (Joint Burial Boards) Act, 1952. |
[GA] | (2) This Act shall be construed as one with the Local Government (Sanitary Services) Acts, 1878 to 1948. | |
[GA] | (3) The Local Government (Sanitary Services) Acts, 1878 to 1948 and this Act may be cited together as the Local Government (Sanitary Services) Acts, 1878 to 1952. |