Manchester Corporation Act, 1950
14 Geo. 6 ch. lvii

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An Act to empower the lord mayor aldermen and citizens of the city of Manchester to acquire and develop lands in the borough of Middleton and to guarantee the interest upon loans of the Manchester Ship Canal Company and to make further provision in reference to the water transport and markets undertakings of the city and for the health local government and improvement of the city and for other purposes. [28th July 1950.]

Whereas it is expedient to empower the lord mayor aldermen and citizens of the city of Manchester (hereinafter referred to as the "Corporation") to acquire additional lands in the borough of Middleton in the county of Lancaster and to develop those lands together with lands in that borough now vested in the Corporation and to confer upon the Corporation all necessary powers in reference to the matters aforesaid:


And whereas it is expedient to provide for the transfer to the Corporation of the site of All Aaints Church Chorlton-on-Medlock for the discontinuance of burials in the churchyard of All Sants Church Newton Heath and in the Ardwick cemetery and to make further provision in relation to burials and to modify the provisions of the Cremation Act 1902 in their application within the city;


Consents under section 5 of Cremation Act 1902.

 

52.-(1) In the application of section 5 of the Crematon Act 1902 to the Corporation the restriction imposed by that section upon the construction of a crematorium near to a dwelling-house shall not apply with reference to any dwelling-house situated at a greater distance than one hundred yards from the site of a proposed crematorium nor to any new dwelling house.

(2) For the purposes of this section-

the expression "new dwelling-house" means any dwelling-house the erection or placing in position of which is commenced on or after the date on which public notice of the application to the Minister for his approval of the plans and site of a proposed crematorium is first given by the Corporation;

the expression "public notice" means a notice which is advertised in a newspaper circulating in the locality of the site in question and is displayed upon a conspicuous part of that site; and

the expression "site of a proposed crematorium" means the land which is proposed to be covered with a building intended to be used for the purpose of burning human remains.


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