Part 6 - Conduct within cemeteries
Vehicles
- 38.1. Vehicles are permitted in the Cemetery only during Opening Hours and at the absolute discretion of the Cemetery staff.
- 38.2. Any vehicles entering the Cemetery must:
- keep within any speed limits specified at that Cemetery location
- be driven with due care and attention (c) comply with all directional signs
- comply with all directional signs
- comply with all Burial Authority employee's directions
- not use the Cemetery as a thoroughfare#
- not be taken onto grassed areas
- 38.3. The Burial Authority shall not be held responsible for any damage to vehicles or other property left within the cemetery.
Conduct within Cemetery Grounds
- 39.1. No person while in Cemetery grounds shall:
- wilfully create any disturbance
- commit any nuisance
- wilfully interfere with any burial taking place
- wilfully interfere with any grave, vault, headstone or other memorial, or any flowers or plants
- play at any game or sport
- 39.2. Anyone who contravenes paragraph 38.1 shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the limit as stated in the Local Authorities' Cemeteries Order 1977 as amended from time to time.
- 39.3. The Burial Authority, at its absolute discretion, reserves the right to ask any person to leave a Cemetery.
Opening Hours
- 40. No person shall enter or remain in the Cemeteries except during Opening Hours.
Dogs
- 41. Dogs are not permitted in Magdalen Lawn Cemetery and Gorleston Old Cemetery and in all other Authority cemeteries must be kept on a lead. Non-compliance may lead to prosecution under the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014. The penalty upon prosecution of this offence is a fine of up to £1,000.