Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878

Power to direct local inquiry.

163. When and so often as such representation shall have been made, or otherwise as occasion may require, it shall and may be lawful for the Local Government Board, if it shall think fit, to direct an inquiry to be made in the place or district in which any such burial ground or place of burial may be situate, in respect of any matter in relation thereto, after notice shall have been given of the time, place, and subject of such inquiry, such notice to be published once in the Dublin Gazette, and affixed on the doors of the church and chapel of, or in some other conspicuous places within, the parish in which such burial ground may be situate, three weeks before the time of holding such inquiry; and it shall be lawful for one of the inspectors of the said Local Government Board to hold such inquiry, and upon receipt of the report of such inspector as to the result of such inquiry, and of the evidence, if any, taken thereon, it shall be lawful for the Local Government Board to act, and deal with, and make such order in the case, in such manner and in such form, and without further notice, as to them may seem meet; and at any time thereafter to vary such order as occasion may require, and every such order or amended order shall be deemed in all respects valid and effectual in law.