Cemeteries and Crematoria Act 2003

On the appointed day—

The Cheltenham and Regional Cemeteries Trust is abolished and the members go out of office; and

The Trustees of the Necropolis, Spring Vale is abolished and the members go out of office; and

The Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust is established and is the successor in law to each of the cemetery trusts specified in paragraphs (a) and (b); and

all property and rights of each of the former southern cemetery trusts are, by virtue of this clause, vested in The Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust; and

all liabilities of each of the former southern cemetery trusts are, by virtue of this clause, liabilities of The Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust.

The Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust—

is a Class A cemetery trust responsible for the management of the public cemeteries for which each of the former southern cemetery trusts was responsible immediately before the appointed day; and

is taken to have been established as a Class A cemetery trust under Part 2.