section 32

Application of Cremation Acts 1902 and 1952

32. On and after the appointed day the Board shall have and may exercise and perform and shall be subject to all the powers duties and liabilities of a burial authority under the Cremation Acts 1902 and 1952 for the metropolitan borough of Battersea the borough of Sutton and Cheam and the urban districts of Carshalton and Merton and Morden to the exclusion of any other burial authority and the provisions of those Acts shall extend to the Board as if they were herein re-enacted and in terms made applicable to this Act and to the Board:

Provided that section 5 of the Cremation Act 1902 shall not apply in respect of any crematorium to be constructed upon the land described in the Second Schedule to this Act.