3.—(1) The Council may, for the purpose of discharging its duty to issue a provisional map under section 5(d) or (e) of the Act, or for any purpose incidental thereto, produce and publish copies of that provisional map in such form, including electronic form, as it may determine and any such copy published by or with the authority of the Council is to be deemed to be identical to the provisional map unless the contrary is shown.
(2) The Council may, for the purpose of illustrating the existence and extent of the section 4(2) land shown on one or more provisional maps, and for the purpose of making available for inspection copies of the provisional map in accordance with regulation 4(2)(a) and (b), or for complying with a request of a kind referred to in regulation 4(3)(h), produce and publish copies of provisional maps showing such section 4(2) land at a scale of less than 1:10,000 but not less than 1:25,000.
(3) Copies of provisional maps produced under paragraph (1):
(a)must clearly identify the classes of section 4(2) land and other features which are identified, in accordance with regulations 3(6) and 7(3) of the Draft Maps Regulations, on the provisional map of which they are copies, by the use of different colours, shading, lines and symbols, but the colours (if any), shading, lines or other symbols used to do so need not be identical to those used for that purpose on that provisional map; and
(b)are not to be regarded as evidence of the contents of those provisional maps.