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It shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by and with the advice of her Privy Council, from time to time to postpone the time appointed by any Order in Council for the discontinuance of burials, or otherwise to vary any Order in Council made under any of the said recited Acts or this Act, (whether the time thereby appointed for the discontinuance of burials thereunder or other operation of such order shall or shall not have arrived,) as to Her Majesty, with such advice as aforesaid, may seem fit; . . . . . . 
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If any person, after the time mentioned in any Order in Council under the said Acts or any of them, or this Act, for the discontinuance of burials, shall knowingly and wilfully bury any body or in anywise act or assist in the burial of any body in any church, chapel, churchyard, burial ground, or place of burial, or (as the case may be) within the limits in which burials have by such Orders been ordered to be discontinued, in violation of the provisions of any such Order, every person so offending shall, upon summary conviction before two justices of the peace, forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds.level 1 on the standard scale
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It shall be lawful for one of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State from time to time to appoint and authorize any person to inspect any burial ground or cemetery, parochial or non-parochial, or place for the reception of bodies, to ascertain the state and condition thereof, and where regulations in relation thereto have been made or may be made by the Secretary of State under the said Acts or any of them, to ascertain whether such regulations have been observed and complied with; and if any person having the care of any such burial ground or cemetery or other place shall obstruct any person so authorized to inspect the same, or if any person having the care of any burial ground or place for the reception of bodies subject to such regulations as aforesaid shall violate or neglect or fail to observe and comply with any such regulation, or any regulation imposed by this Act, every person so offending shall upon summary conviction thereof before two justices forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding ten pounds.level 1 on the standard scale
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In every case in which any Order in Council has been or shall hereafter be issued for the discontinuance of burials in any churchyard or burial ground, the burial board or churchwardens, as the case may be, shall maintain such churchyard or burial ground of any parish in decent order, and also do the necessary repair of the walls and other fences thereof; and the costs and expenses shall be repaid by the overseers, upon the certificate of the . . . . . .  churchwardens, . . . . . . , out of the rate made for the relief of the poor of the parish or place in which such churchyard . . . . . .  is situate, unless there shall be some other fund legally chargeable with such costs and expenses.
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