Chapter 32

An Act for extending certain Provisions of the Metropolitan Open
Spaces Acts, 1877 and 1881, with Amendments, to Sanitary Districts
throughout England, Wales, and Ireland; and for other purposes.
[23rd August, 1887.]

[Sidenote: 40 & 41 Vict. c. 35. 44 & 45 Vict. c. 34.]WHEREAS by the
Metropolitan Open Spaces Acts, 1877 and 1881 (herein called the
principal Acts), certain facilities were provided for making
available the open spaces and burial-grounds in the metropolis for
the use of the inhabitants thereof for exercise and recreation, and
it is expedient to provide facilities for making available open
spaces and burial-grounds in all sanitary districts in England,
Wales, and Ireland, for the like use of the inhabitants thereof, and
to make other provisions for the [Sidenote: 47 & 48 Vict. c. 72.]
purpose aforesaid, and also to amend the Metropolitan Open Spaces
Act, 1881, and the Disused Burial-grounds Act, 1884:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty by and
with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and
Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority
of the same, as follows:

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4. [Sidenote: 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.

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11. [Sidenote: 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.

Footnote 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.

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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.”

In the second paragraph of section five, the words, “but such
Metropolitan Board,[11] vestry, or district board shall not allow
the playing of any games or sports therein.”

Footnote 11:

Ibid.

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● Transcriber’s Notes:
○ Missing or obscured punctuation was corrected.
○ Typographical errors were silently corrected.
○ Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only
when a predominant form was found in this book.
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