The Dublin Cemeteries Committee Act, 1970

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Number 1 (Private) of 1970


THE DUBLIN CEMETERIES COMMITTEE ACT, 1970


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1.

Title.

2.

Definition.

3.

Name of Committee.

4.

Constitution of Committee.

5.

Membership.

6.

Appoinment of members.

7.

Chairman.

8.

Meetings.

9.

Rules.

10.

Fees.

11.

Expenses of Committee and Members.

12.

Contracts.

13.

Seal.

14.

Contracts not under seal.

15.

Performance of functions.

16.

Objects.

17.

Powers.

18.

Disposal of lands.

19.

Application of income.

20.

Winding up.

21.

Burial Services.

22.

Catholic Chaplain.

23.

Remuneration of Chaplain.

24.

Maintenance.

25.

Transfer of property.

26.

Transitory provisions.

27.

Transfer of employees.

28.

Application of Finance Act, 1895.

29.

Regulations.

30.

Accounts.

31.

Dissolution of 1846 Committee.

32.

Establishment date.

33.

Repeal of 1846 Act.

34.

Expenses.

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Number 1 (Private) of 1970


THE DUBLIN CEMETERIES COMMITTEE ACT, 1970


AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A BODY CORPORATE TO UNDERTAKE AND CARRY OUT THE FUNCTIONS AT PRESENT UNDERTAKEN AND CARRIED OUT BY THE “DUBLIN CEMETERIES COMMITTEE” AND TO ENLARGE AND EXTEND SUCH FUNCTIONS. [2nd August, 1970.]

Preamble.

WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament held in the ninth and tenth years of Queen Victoria Cap. ccclxi entitled “An Act for the maintenance of the Cemeteries at Golden Bridge and Prospect in the County of Dublin and to create a perpetual Succession in the governing Body or Committee for managing the same” (hereinafter referred to as “the 1846 Act”) certain persons therein named and their successors were constituted a Committee or Governing Body by the name and style the “Dublin Cemeteries Committee” (hereinafter referred to as “The 1846 Committee”) for the maintenance of certain public Cemeteries and Burial grounds which had been established at Golden Bridge in the Parish of St. James and at Prospect Glasnevin in the Parish of Glasnevin and in the County (now in the County Borough) of Dublin (hereinafter referred to as “The Original Cemeteries”) with power to hold the said Burial Grounds or Cemeteries, lands, buildings and hereditaments at Golden Bridge and Prospect aforesaid to them and their successors and assigns without incurring any penalties or forfeitures.

AND WHEREAS the 1846 Committee have acquired further lands from time to time in the Parish of Glasnevin aforesaid for use as a Cemetery or Burial Ground or for use in conjunction with the Original Cemeteries which further lands together with the Original Cemeteries are hereinafter referred to as “The Existing Cemeteries”.

AND WHEREAS doubts have arisen as to the nature and constitution of the 1846 Committee and as to its power to acquire and provide burial facilities in the County and County Borough of Dublin elsewhere than in the Parish of Glasnevin aforesaid to sell or dispose of land, and to invest or deal with surplus moneys.

AND WHEREAS it is expedient that such doubts should be resolved.

AND WHEREAS the purposes aforesaid cannot be effected without the authority of the Oireachtas.

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS: