Cemeteries Clauses Act 1847


The Cemeteries Clauses Act 1847 is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that consolidated the law concerning the management and regulation of public cemeteries in the United Kingdom.
, the act remains in force in the United Kingdom.

Section 10 – Cemetery not to be within a certain distance of houses

Section 10 of the act was repealed by of, and to, the Local Government Act 1972.

Section 58 – Penalty for damaging the Cemetery

Section 58 of the act was repealed by of, and of the Schedule to, the Criminal Damage Act 1971.

Section 59 – Penalty on persons committing nuisances in the cemetery

Proposal for repeal
In 1985, the Law Commission said that this offence was no longer used and recommended that it be repealed.

Section 61 – Tender of amends

Section 61 of the act was repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1894.

Section 63 – In Ireland, part of penalty to be paid to Guardians of Unions

Section 63 of the act was repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1875.

Section 65 – Persons giving false evidence liable to penalties of perjury

This section was repealed, so far as it applied to England, by of, and the to the Perjury Act 1911.

Section 69 – Act may be amended, etc.

Section 69 of the act was repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1875.