Disused cemeteries

If at any time hereafter any cemetery becomes disused it shall be lawful for the Town Council within whose jurisdiction such cemetery is situated, or the Director of Health Services, as the case may be, to take possession thereof, and if no protest is made against such possession within six months from the date when it has been taken it shall be lawful for the Town Council or Director of Health Services, as the case may be, to keep it in repair and properly fence it or to deal therewith in any other manner whatever as to them or him shall seem fit, Provided that, (a) in the case of cemeteries which have become disused prior to 1st March 1896, the same shall be kept in repair and fenced as aforesaid not out of the ordinary local fund at the disposal of the Town Council, but with such moneys only as shall from time to time be expressly voted for that purpose by the (b) the Minister may at any time with the consent of the National Assembly declare a place to be no longer a cemetery.