Local Government (Reorganisation) Act, 1985
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Preparation of certain maps. |
17.—(1) As soon as may be after the commencement of section 12 of this Act, the Commissioner of Valuation shall prepare in quintuplicate a map, drawn to such convenient scale and in such convenient number of separate sheets as he shall think fit, showing the boundaries of each of the established electoral counties and when such maps have been prepared by the said Commissioner he shall seal each such map and shall, as soon as may be thereafter, deposit them as follows, namely, one of them in the principal office of the said Commissioner, another in the offices of the Minister and the other three in the offices of the County Council. | |
(2) Every map deposited pursuant to subsection (1) of this section in the principal office of the Commissioner of Valuation or in the offices of the County Council, shall be retained in the office or offices in which it is so deposited, and each such map, or true copies thereof, shall be open for inspection free of charge at the office or offices in which it is so deposited by any person at any time at which such office or offices is or are open for the transaction of public business, and it shall be lawful for the Commissioner of Valuation or the County Council to prepare and supply to any person requesting the same a true copy of any map so deposited with him or them or any particular part thereof and to charge for such copy such sum as he, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, or they, may fix. | ||
(3) It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Valuation and of the County Council, respectively, whenever required so to do by any Court of Justice, to prepare and produce to such Court a true copy of the map deposited with him or them pursuant to subsection (1) of this section, or any specified part thereof and to verify such copy to such Court by the oath of one of his or their officers, and upon any such copy being so produced and verified to such Court, such Court shall receive such copy in evidence and thereupon such copy shall, unless the contrary is shown, be sufficient evidence of the boundary (in so far as the same is shown on such copy) of the established electoral county to which the copy purports to relate, notwithstanding any discrepancy between such copy and the description of a boundary contained in the Third Schedule to this Act or any ambiguity or uncertainty in such description or in the application thereof. |