Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878

Part III.

BURIAL GROUNDS.

Sanitary authority to be burial board.

160. The sanitary authority of each sanitary district, except towns or townships having commissioners under local Acts, shall be the burial board for such district, and such burial board shall, in carrying into execution the provisions of this part of this Act, be subject to the control and direction of the Local Government Board. In towns or townships having commissioners under local Acts, the guardians of the poor of the poor law union or unions in which the town or township is situated shall be the burial board for the town or township, or the part thereof situated within the union of which they are the guardians, as the case may be.