Anatomy Act, 1871

ANATOMY ACT 1871

CHAPTER XVI.

An Act to amend the Act of the second and third years of William the Fourth, chapter seventy-five, for regulating Schools of Anatomy. [25th May 1871.]

[Preamble recites 2 & 3 Will. 4. c. 75.]

Construction and short title.

1. This Act shall be construed as one with the recited Act, and the recited Act and this Act may be cited as “The Anatomy Acts, 1832 and 1871,” and each of them may be cited as the Anatomy Act of the year in which it was passed.

Power to Secretary of State to vary period for transmission of certificates of interment to district inspectors.

2. It shall be lawful for one of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State in that part of the United Kingdom called Great Britain, and for the Chief Secretary for Ireland in that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland, from time to time, by order, to vary the period limited by section thirteen of the recited Act as the time within which certificates of interment are to be transmitted to the inspectors of districts.