Camperdown and Randwick Cemeteries Act of 1867 No 2a (NSW)

No. II.

An Act to prohibit Burials in the Camperdown
Cemetery and to regulate Burials in the

Randwick Cemetery. [2nd September, 1867.]

hundred and sixty-eight all burials in the burial ground known as the Camperdown Cemetery shall be discontinued and on and after the same date all burials in the burial ground known as the Randwick Cemetery shall be discontinued Provided always that in any case where there is on such day an exclusive right of interment in any vault or enclosure in the Camperdown Cemetery purchased or acquired it shall be lawful for the Colonial Secretary on application being made to him and on his being satisfied that the exercise of such right will not be injurious to health to grant a license for the exercise of such right during such time and subject to such conditions and restrictions as he may think fit And provided also that it shall be lawful to inter bodies

tinued and that burials in the burial ground known as the Randwick WHEREAS it is expedient that further burials in the burial ground known as the Camperdown Cemetery should be discon­

Cemetery should be regulated Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows :—

1. On and after the first day of January one thousand eight

bodies in any enclosure in the Randwick Cemetery within which any body shall on such day have been interred and in which on such day an exclusive right of interment shall have been acquired.

2. If any person after the date aforesaid shall knowingly and wilfully bury any body or in anywise act or assist in the burial of any body in either of the said cemeteries contrary to the provisions of this Act every person so offending shall upon summary conviction thereof forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty pounds.

3. Every penalty for any offence against this Act may be enforced and recovered upon summary conviction of such offence before any two Justices of the Peace and in case of non-payment thereof it may be levied by distress and sale of the offenders goods and chattels and on failure of distress may be enforced in manner provided by the Act eleventh and twelfth Victoria chapter forty-three as adopted by the Act of the Governor and Legislative Council fourteenth Victoria number forty-three and by any Acts amending the same.

4. This Act shall be styled and cited as the " Camperdown and Randwick Cemeteries Act of 1867."