Fremantle (Skinner Street) Disused Cemetery Amendment Act 1931 (WA)

Fremantle

1931.] (Skinner Street) Disused Cemetery. [No. 15.

FREMANTLE (Skinner street) DISUSED

CEMETERY.

22° GEO. V., No. XV.

No. 15 of 1931.

AN ACT to provide for the vesting of certain Lands now vested in the Trustees of the Fremantle Cemetery in the City of Fremantle and amend the Fremantle (Skinner street) Disused Cemetery Act, 1909.

[Assented to 18th August, 1931.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by

and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western. Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—

1.    This Act may be cited as the Fremantle (Skinner Short title.

street) Disused Cemetery Amendment Act, 1931, and shall be read as one with the Fremantle (Skinner street) Disused Cemetery Act, 1909, hereinafter called the principal Act.

2.    The lands vested in the trustees of the Fremantle crigrartlevdrit

Cemetery by section two of the principal Act are hereby e;tyeillrenemotle.

vested in the city of Fremantle on the same trusts as

the same are now vested in the said trustees.

3.

The council of the city of Fremantle may cause the remains (so far as the remains can by reasonable dili-	The coupon of the
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gence be discovered or identified) of all persons buried
in the land described in the schedule to the principal Act,	rillegeefly b&ree.e
together with all slabs and tombstones in relation thereto,	eFertenme tyl.e public
to be collected with due care and removed to the Fre- mantle public cemetery, and shall there cause such remains to be reverently buried and such slabs and tombstones to be re-erected and full records in each case to be entered up in the register of the said cemetery.

Fremantle

No. 15.] (Skinner street) Disused Cemetery. [1931.

City may defray

It shall be lawful for but not obligatory on the council of the said city, in default of any arrangement being come to with the representatives or known relatives of the persons so buried to pay the cost of such re-inter- ment, to defray the same out of the funds of the city.

the cost. 4.

On removal of all

bodies the Governor	5.	On the Governor being satisfied that the remains
may vest the old

Skinner street	of all persons have been removed and re-interred and all
cemetery In the
city of Fremantle	slabs and tombstones removed and re-erected in accordance
as a class A
reserve.	with the provisions of section two, the Governor may by proclamation declare that the lands vested in the city of Fremantle by section one shall thenceforth be freed and discharged from all trusts previously affecting the same, to the intent that the same shall thereby be created and thenceforth used as a class A reserve for the purpose of public recreation in the same way as if it had been duly classified as such under section two of the Permanent Reserves Act, 1899.
Short title on
reprint.	6. The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Fremantle (Skinner street) Disused Cemetery Act, 1909-1931.