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An Act to constitute a joint board comprising representatives of the mayor aldermen and burgesses of the Borough of Sutton and Cheam and the mayor aldermen and councillors of the metropolitan borough of Battersea and the urban district councils of Carshalton and Merton and Morden to authorise the Board to provide and maintain a crematorium and for other purposes. [5th July 1956]
4.-(1) ..................
(2) In this Act unless the subject or context otherwise requires -
"appointed day" means the first day of October one thousand nine hundred and fifty-six;
"Board" means the North-East Surrey Crematorium Board;
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.
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