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Number 22 of 1952.
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LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SANITARY SERVICES) (JOINT BURIAL BOARDS) ACT, 1952.
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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
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Number 22 of 1952.
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LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SANITARY SERVICES) (JOINT BURIAL BOARDS) ACT, 1952.
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AN ACT TO REMOVE DOUBTS AS TO THE POWER OF JOINT BURIAL BOARDS TO ACQUIRE LAND COMPULSORILY. [10th December, 1952.]
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—
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Definition of joint burial board.
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1.—In this Act the expression “joint burial board” means the governing body of a united district formed under the provisions of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878 which possesses the powers and is subject to the duties conferred and imposed on a burial board by the said Act.
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Compulsory acquisition of land by a joint burial board.
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2.—In order to remove doubts it is hereby declared that the powers of a joint burial board include and have always included the powers of a sanitary authority acting as burial board for a sanitary district to acquire land compulsorily for the purposes of providing a new burial ground or making additions to a burial ground, and that every enactment which enables or for the time being enabled a sanitary authority so acting to acquire land compulsorily for such purposes is and has been applicable to a joint burial board and that such powers are and were exercisable accordingly.
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Short title, construction and collective citation.
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3.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Local Government (Sanitary Services) (Joint Burial Boards) Act, 1952.
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(2) This Act shall be construed as one with the Local Government (Sanitary Services) Acts, 1878 to 1948.
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(3) The Local Government (Sanitary Services) Acts, 1878 to 1948 and this Act may be cited together as the Local Government (Sanitary Services) Acts, 1878 to 1952.
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