4. |Amendment of 47 & 48 Vict. c. 72.| In the Disused Burial-grounds Act, 1884, and this Act, the expression “burial-ground” shall have the same meaning as in the Metropolitan Open Spaces Act, 1881, as amended by this Act, and the expression “disused burial-ground” shall mean any burial-ground which is no longer used for interments, whether or not such ground shall have been partially or wholly closed for burials under the provisions of any statute or Order in Council, and the expression “building” shall include any temporary or movable building.
11. |Power over open spaces already vested in sanitary authority.| The Metropolitan Board[[10]] or the sanitary authority may exercise all the powers given to them by the Metropolitan Open Spaces, 1881, or this Act respecting open spaces, churchyards, cemeteries, and burial-grounds transferred to them in pursuance of the said Act or of this Act in respect of any open spaces, churchyards, cemeteries, and burial-grounds transferred to them in pursuance of the said Act or of this Act in respect of any open spaces, churchyards, cemeterie, and burial-grounds of a similar nature which are or shall be vested in them in pursuance of any other statute, or of which they are otherwise the owners.
[10]. Read London County Council.
N.B. Clauses 2 and 3 in this Act, which also refer to burial-grounds, are incorporated in Appendix D.
SCHEDULE.
Portions of the Metropolitan Open Spaces Act, 1881, repealed.
In section one, the following words occurring in the definition of an “open space,” viz., “but shall not include any enclosed land which has not a public road or footpath completely round the same.”
In the same section, the following words occurring in the definition of a “burial-ground,” viz., “and in which interments have taken place since the year 1800.”