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PUBLIC HEALTH (IRELAND) AMENDMENT ACT 1879
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CHAPTER LVII.
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An Act to amend the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878. [15th August 1879.]
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Short title.
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1. This Act may be cited as the Public Health (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1879, and shall extend to Ireland only.
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[S. 2 rep. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 37. s. 110 (2).]
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Orders made under 19 & 20 Vict. c. 98, and Acts amending the same, to be binding.
41 & 42 Vict. c. 52.
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3. All orders made prior to the passing of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878, under the provisions of the Burial Grounds (Ireland) Act, 1856, or any Act amending the same, for the discontinuance of burials in any place, or otherwise in relation to any churchyard or burial ground, shall be as effectual for all purposes as if they were orders of the Local Government Board for Ireland made under the provisions of the third part of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878; and all the provisions of the said Act applicable to orders made by the Local Government Board in accordance with the provisions of the third part of the said Act shall apply to such orders made prior to the passing of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878, as fully as if they were orders of the Local Government Board made under the third part of the said Act.
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Burial of persons whose relatives cannot be required to provide for their interment.
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4. In addition to any powers vested at the time of the passing of this Act in the guardians of the poor of any union for providing for the burial of the bodies of persons unknown, and for supplying coffins and shrouds in certain cases, and otherwise in relation to burials, it shall be lawful for the guardians of the poor of any union, or in case of urgency for the relieving officer, in cases where the relatives of any person dying within the union are not known, or by reason of their absence, or poverty, or otherwise, are unable to provide for the burial of such deceased person, to defray all necessary and proper expenses incurred in the burial of such deceased person, subject to any rules which the Local Government Board for Ireland may make in that behalf; and the expenses incurred by the guardians under this section shall be charged on the rates of the union in like manner as the said deceased person would have been chargeable if he had been in receipt of relief at the time of his death, or on such other fund at the disposal of the guardians as the Local Government Board shall prescribe.
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Certain Acts deemed Sanitary Acts.
41 & 42 Vict. c. 52.
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5. Where any Act empowers any urban sanitary authority to cause the streets or footways under their control to be paved or flagged, such Act, so far as it relates to the paving or flagging of streets or footways, shall, for all the purposes of the sections of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878, which have reference to the borrowing of money for the purposes of the Sanitary Acts, be deemed to be a Sanitary Act within the meaning of the term “Sanitary Acts” as defined by the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878.
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Byelaws as to traffic.
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6. In urban sanitary districts the urban sanitary authority, and in such parts of counties as are outside the limits of any urban sanitary district the grand jury, may, respectively, from time to time, make byelaws as to the hours during which locomotives propelled by steam or by other than animal power are not to pass over the roads or highways situate within the areas respectively above mentioned, the hours being in all cases consecutive hours, and not more than eight out of the twenty-four, and for regulating the use of such locomotives upon any highway, or preventing such use upon every bridge where such authority is satisfied that such use would be attended with danger to the public; and any person in charge of a locomotive acting contrary to such byelaws shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds, to be recovered in a summary manner.
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Returns as to burials.
41 & 42 Vict. c. 52.
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7. The returns which the clerk, or secretary, or registrar to every burial board and cemetery company, or other authority having charge of any burial ground is required to make in accordance with the provisions of the one hundred and ninety-first section of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878, shall either be transmitted by each such clerk, or secretary, or registrar to the registrar of births and deaths of the district prescribed by the said section or shall be sent to the Registrar General of Births and Deaths in Ireland as the Local Government Board shall from time to time order.
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