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Towns Improvement Clauses Act 1847

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20 Errors and omissions in plans, &c. may be corrected by justices, who shall certify the same. Certificate to be deposited. U.K.

If any omission, mis-statement, or wrong description shall have been made of any lands, or of the owners, lessees, or occupiers of any lands, mentioned in any schedule to the special Act, the commissioners, after giving ten days notice to the owners, lessees, and occupiers of the lands affected by such proposed correction, may apply to two justices for the correction thereof; and if it appear to such justices that such omission, mis-statement, or wrong description arose from mistake, they shall certify the same accordingly, and they shall in such certificate state the particulars of any such omission, mis-statement, or wrong description; and such certificate, with the other documents to which it relates, shall be deposited with [F1the clerk of the peace of the county in which the lands affected thereby are situated][F1the chief clerk], and such certificate shall be kept by such clerk of the peace with the other documents to which it relates, and thereupon such schedule shall be deemed to be corrected according to such certificate; and the commissioners may take any lands in accordance with such certificate, as if such omission, mis-statement, or wrong description had not been made.

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C1References to clerk of the peace of the county to be construed as references to proper officer of the county council: Courts Act 1971 (c. 23), Sch. 8 para. 1 and Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 29 Pt. I para. 4(1)(b)

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