§ (1) The Ordnance Survey Act 1841 (in this section referred to as "the 1841 Act") shall have effect subject to the modifications set out in this section.
§ (2) An application under section 1 as read with section 17 of the 1841 Act shall be made to the proper officer of the regional, islands or district council, and where such an application is made, the function of appointing a person to assist in examining, ascertaining and marking out reputed boundaries shall be exercisable by the council to whose proper officer the application was made.
§ (3) The newspapers in which copies of an application under section 1 as read with section 17 of the 1841 Act are to be inserted shall be those circulating in the area of the council to whose proper officer the application was made.
§ (4)
- (a) References, in whatever terms in the 1841 Act, to the sheriff by whom a person is appointed under section 1 as read with section 17 of that Act shall be construed as references to the regional, islands or district council, as the case may be.
- (b) References in the 1841 Act to the sheriff clerk or sheriff clerk depute shall be construed as references to the proper officer of the regional, islands or district council, as the case may be.
§ (5) References in the 1841 Act to a county shall be construed as references to a region, islands area or district, as the case may be, 35 including the electoral areas thereof and other places therein.—[Mr. Buchanan-Smith.]
§ Brought up and read the First time.
§ The Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs and Agriculture, Scottish Office (Mr. Alick Buchanan-Smith)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
The clause quite simply modifies, in the light of the new local government structure, the Ordnance Survey Act 1941 on which Ordnance Survey relies to carry out its activities.
§ Question put and agreed to.
§ Clause read a Second time, and added to the Bill.