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446 or limited company, and the parish priest officiating for the time being in such place of worship is desirous of putting the burial ground under the management of the burial board of the district, it shall be lawful for him so to do, and the provisions of the one hundred and eighty seventh section of the principal Act shall apply accordingly.

21.—(1) In a town, not being an urban sanitary district, town commissioners for the time being existing for the paving, lighting, or cleansing of that town, under any public or private Act of markets. Parliament or any charter, shall, for the purpose of the one hundred and third section of the principal Act, be deemed to be an urban authority, and the said section, as amended by this Act, shall apply accordingly.

(2.) For the purpose of byelaws to be made by towns commissioners in pursuance of the powers conferred on them by the said section, the provisions of the fifty-seventh section of the Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854, shall apply both as regards fairs and markets, and shall be deemed to be incorporated with this Act.

22. The approval of the Local Government Board to byelaws made under the Baths and Washhouses (Ireland) Act, 1846, shall, for the purpose of section twenty of that Act, be substituted for the approval of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.

23. In the application to Ireland of the Public Health and Local Government Conferences Act. 1885, the expression "clerk to the local authority" shall include any executive sanitary officer, borough surveyor, or engineer or other officer duly appointed by the local authority to attend conferences or meetings under that Act.

24. If the person appointed under sub-section seven of section two hundred and seventeen of the principal Act by the arbitrators to be an umpire refuses to act, the arbitrators shall forthwith appoint another person in his stead.

25. The signature by the executive sanitary officer of the sanitary authority of any document referred to in section two hundred and sixty-six of the principal Act shall be sufficient authentication thereof for the purposes of the said section.

26. In section forty of the principal Act, the words "erect or" shall be inserted before the words "bring forward."

27. In section twenty-eight of the principal Act the word "levelled" shall be inserted after the word "sewered" where that word first occurs in the said section.

28. The expression "Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1874," wherever it occurs in the Rivers Pollution Prevention Act, 1876, shall, in the application of the said Act of 1876, to Ireland, be construed as meaning the Public Health (Ireland) Acts, 1878 to 1890.