Drowned Persons (Discovery and Interment) Act 1886
WHEREAS an Act was passed in the forty-eighth year of the reign of King George the Third, intituled "An Act for providing suitable interment in churchyards or parochial burying grounds in England for such dead human bodies as may be cast on shore from the sea in cases of wreck or otherwise" (in this Act called "the principal Act"), and it is expedient to amend the same and make it applicable to the discovery and interment of dead human bodies cast on shore from any tidal or navigable waters, ...