Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878

Management to be vested in burial boards.

177. The general management regulation and control of the burial grounds provided under the Burial Grounds Acts or this Act shall, subject to the provisions of this Act and the regulations to be made thereunder, be vested in and exercised by the respective burial boards providing the same: Provided always, that any question which shall arise touching the fitness of any monumental inscription placed or proposed to be placed in any part or portion of such grounds shall be determined by the proper ministers of the religious denomination to which such part or portion shall have been allotted: Provided also, that at the burials of the bodies of members of any church or religious denomination, burial service according to the respective rites of such church or denomination may be performed or celebrated by the proper ministers of such church or denomination.