Cemeteries Act 1862 (SA)

ANNO VICESIMO QUINTO ET VICESIMO SEXTO

A.D. 1862.

An Act f i r the Regulation qf Cemeteries.

[Assented to, 21st October, 1862.1

W HEREAS it is expedient to regulate Cemeteries in the Province f i ead le.

of South Ausf-ralia-Be it therefore Enacted, by the Governor-

in-Chief of the Province of South Australia, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council ancl House of Assembly of the said Province, in this present Parliament assembled, as follows:-

may make rules or regulations with respect to any cemetery for rdea and regulationr, 1. The Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, aorernormaymah

regulating the positions and the depths of the graves, and construc- tion of coffins to be admitted into vaults, and the covering of vaults so as to prevent the escape of any noxious exhalation, and generally for all sanitary purposes connected with any cemetery, and such rules and regulations shall be published in the 8ozcth Australian

his family therein.

Government Gazette,

may close

2. The Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, when- cemetery.

ever any cemetery or part of a cemetery now existing, or hereafter to be opened, shall appear unsuitable for the purpose of burial therein may, by Proclamation in the South Australiu~~ Government Gazette, order the total closing of such cemetery, or part of a cemetery; and upon such Proclamation being duly published, the land described therein shall cease to be used as a place of inter- ment, saving the right of any person who may have acquired a por-

tion of the cemetery for a vault or grave to bury any member of

Btu ' ginplace not 3. If any person shall, contrary to Proclamation as aforesaid,

pm&ed a cemetery.

cause or allow any burial to take place in ground which, having

been used as a cemetery, shall, by Proclamation, have been ordered to be closed, as aforesaid, or shall in any way infringe the regula- tions as aforesaid, such person shall, on conviction before two or more Justices of the Peace, forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding

Appropriation of	Fifty Pounds, which, when recovered, shall be paid to the Treasurer
penaltaes.	of the said Province, for the public purposes thereof,
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removed. 4. Under regulations to Fe made by the Governor, with the

advice of the Executive Council, a corpse may be removed from

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any place of interment to any family vault or grave situated either

- 6+1&$6 in a public cemetery or on private lands.

Regulations to be 5. All regulations made as aforesaid shall be published in the

and laid

before Parliament for	&uth Austmlian Government Gazette, and shall thereupon have the
fourteen days, when	force of law: Provided that a copy of all such regulations shall

they	law*	be laid before Parliament within fourteen days from the publication thereof as aforesaid if Parliament shall then be sitting, and if Parliament shall not then be sitting, then within fourteen days from
its next sitting for the dispatch of business.

In the name and on behalf of the Queen I hereby assent to

this Act.

D, DALY, Governor.

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Adelaide : Printed by authority, by W, C, @ox, Government Printer, Viotorh-squm,