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I-11 - Burial Act

Section 17
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17. Whenever in any parish or mission the competent religious authority decides to remove an old cemetery and to open a new one, any judge of the Superior Court, in term or in vacation, on an application presented to him by the parish priest or missionary and by the majority of the churchwardens of the church or congregation to which such old cemetery belongs or to whose use it is applied, may grant permission to cause all or any of the bodies buried in such old cemetery to be removed to such new cemetery.
R. S. 1964, c. 310, s. 18; I.N. 2016-01-01 (NCCP).
17. Whenever in any parish or mission the competent religious authority decides to remove an old cemetery and to open a new one, any judge of the Superior Court, in term or in vacation, on petition presented to him by the parish priest or missionary and by the majority of the churchwardens of the church or congregation to which such old cemetery belongs or to whose use it is applied, may grant permission to cause all or any of the bodies buried in such old cemetery to be removed to such new cemetery.
R. S. 1964, c. 310, s. 18.
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