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An Act to constitute a joint board comprising representatives of the mayor alderman and burgesses of the boroughs of Heston and Isleworth Southall and Twickenham and the urban district councils of Feltham and Sunbury-on-Thames and to authorise the Board to provide and maintain a crematorium and for other purposes. [19th July 1947.]
Whereas it is expedient to constitute and incorporate a joint board comprising representatives of the mayor aldermen and burgesses of the boroughs of Heston and Isleworth Southall and Twickenham and the urban district councils of Feltham and Sunbury-on-Thames and to empower the said board to provide and maintain a crematorium;
4.-(1) ..................
(2) In this Act unless the subject or context otherwise requires -
"The Board" means the South-West Crematorium Board;
40. 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 Act 1902 and the provisions of that Act 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 -
(1) 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;
(2) (a) in the application of the said section 5 to the Board 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 situate at a greater distance than one hundred yards from the site of a proposed crematorium nor to any new dwelling house.
(b) For the purposes of this proviso-
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 Board;
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.
