4.-(1) For the purposes of this Act and the Cremation Act, 1902, the expression "burial authority" shall be deemed to include any council having power to provide a cemetery under the Public Health (Interments) Act, 1879.
(2) Section ninety-one of the Local Government Act, 1933 (which enables local authorities to appoint joint committees for any purpose in which they are jointly interested) shall apply in relation to a burial authority not being a local authority within the meaning of that section as if it were such a local authority.
(3) In the application of this section to Scotland there shall be substituted for the reference to a council having power to provide a cemetery under the Public Health (Interments) Act, 1879, a reference to a council having power to provide a burial ground under the Burial Grounds (Scotland) Act, 1855, and subsection (2) shall be omitted.
