Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878

Vesting of burial ground by Church Temporalities Commissioners.

161. Every burial ground heretofore vested in a board of guardians by the Commissioners of Church Temporalities in Ireland shall be transferred to and shall vest in the burial board as constituted by this Act of the district within which it is situate, subject to all rights, liabilities, and obligations affecting the same, and any burial ground hereafter to be vested by the said Commissioners in a burial board shall be vested by them in the burial board of the district in which such burial ground shall be situate, anything to the contrary heretofore enacted notwithstanding.

All burial grounds and all property real and personal, including all interests rights and easements in, to, and out of property real and personal (including things in action), heretofore belonging to or vested in any burial board under the Burial Grounds Acts shall be transferred to and vest in the burial board (as constituted by this Act) of the district within which the same are situate, subject to all rights debts liabilities and obligations affecting the same.

Provided, that every burial ground heretofore acquired by any burial board under the provisions of the Burial Grounds Acts, or of any local Act, situate wholly or in part without the limits of the district of such burial board, shall for all the purposes of this Act be deemed to be situate wholly within the limits of the district of such burial board.

All such property shall be held by such burial board upon trust for the district or several places respectively within its jurisdiction as a burial board under this Act.