HC Deb 20 July 1972 vol 841 cc1047-8

MAINTENANCE OF A CLOSED CHURCHYARD

Amendments made: No. 796 in page 150, line 17, leave out 'is' and insert 'has been'.

No. 797, in page 150, line 20, leave out 'thereafter'.

No. 798, in page 150, line 27, leave out from 'churchyard' to end of line 30 and insert:

  1. (b) if the churchyard is in a parish not having a separate parish council, serve such a request on the chairman of the parish meeting;
  2. (c) if the churchyard is in a community not having a separate community council, serve such a request on the council of the district in which the community is situated; or
  3. (d) if the churchyard is in England elsewhere than the City and the Temples and is not in any parish, serve such a request on the council of the district or London borough in which the churchyard is situated.

No. 799, in page 150, line 32, leave out from the first 'the' to 'as' in line 33 and insert: 'authority on whom the request is served or the parish meeting'.

No. 800, in page 150, line 34, leave out 'notice' and insert 'request'.

No. 801, in page 150, line 36, leave out 'and, if that council' and insert: 'or the chairman of a parish meeting and, if that council or meeting'.

No. 802, in page 150, line 40, after 'council', insert 'or parish meeting'.

No. 803, in page 150, line 42, at end insert: (4) Where before the passing of this Act a church council established under the constitution of the Church in Wales, in purported exercise of the powers conferred by section 18 of the Burial Act 1855 (maintenance of closed churchyard payable out of rates), issued a certificate with respect to a closed churchyard to an existing local authority, and that authority thereupon took over the maintenance of the churchyard, the authority's action shall be deemed to have been lawful for all purposes, and the authority for the time being responsible for the maintenance of the churchyard shall have the like duty with respect to its maintenance as a parochial church council elsewhere than the area subject to the Welsh Church Act 1914.

No. 804, in page 150, line 45, leave out 'the said Act of 1914' and insert 'that Act'.—[Mr. Graham Page.]

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