The Dublin Cemeteries Committee Act, 1970

Objects.

16.—The objects for which the Committee is established are as follows:—

(a) To maintain, improve and extend the existing Cemeteries and to preserve the bodies interred in them from disturbance and desecration.

(b) To acquire, provide, maintain, improve, lay-out, construct and operate in the County and County Borough of Dublin cemeteries, burial grounds and other places and means for the burial, interment, preservation or disposal of human remains in accordance with the rites, services and beliefs of any of the religious denominations specified in Article 44 of Bunreacht na hÉireann or of any other religious denomination existing in the Republic of Ireland on the establishment date.