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SURVEY ACT 1870
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CHAPTER XIII.
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An Act to amend the Law relating to the Surveys of Great Britain, Ireland, and the Isle of Man.[1]
[12th May 1870.]
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[Preamble recites 6 Geo. 4. c. 99; 17 & 18 Vict. c. 17 (Ordnance Survey of Ireland) herein-after referred to as the Survey (Ireland) Acts; 4 & 5 Vict. c. 30; 19 & 20 Vict. c. 61. (Ordnance Survey of Great Britain and I. of Man); 18 & 19 Vict. c. 117 (Transfer of powers of Ordnance Department to Secretary of State for War).]
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Short title.
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1. This Act may be cited as “The Survey Act, 1870.”
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Construction.
4 & 5 Vict. c. 30.
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2. This Act shall be construed as one, so far as it relates to Ireland, with the Survey (Ireland) Acts, and so far as it relates to Great Britain and the Isle of Man with the Ordnance Survey Act, 1841, and the Survey (Ireland) Acts, together with this Act, may be cited together as “The Survey (Ireland) Acts, 1825 to 1870,” and the Ordnance Survey Act, 1841, together with this Act, may be cited as “The Survey (Great Britain) Acts, 1841 and 1870.”
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Transfer of powers to Commissioners of Works.
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3. All the powers, authorities, and things which under the Survey (Ireland) Acts, or the Ordnance Survey Act, 1841, are, or, but for the transfer to Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the War Department would be, vested in or capable of being exercised and done by the Master General and Board of Ordnance shall be vested in and capable of being exercised and done by the Commissioners of Works, and not by the said Secretary of State, and those Acts shall be construed as if the Commissioners of Works were substituted throughout for the Master General and Board of Ordnance.
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[S. 4 rep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39. (S.L.R.)]
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Continuance of Act.
4 & 5 Vict. c. 30.
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5. This Act, so far as it relates to Great Britain and the Isle of Man, shall not . . . continue in force for any longer time than the Ordnance Survey Act, 1841.
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[Sched. rep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39. (S.L.R.)].
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[1 This Act, which by s. 5 was of temporary duration, has been continued by the Expiring Laws Continuance Acts.] |
