Part IX Functions

The environment

191 Ordnance survey.

1

In its application outside Greater London, the M1Ordnance Survey Act 1841 (in this section referred to as “the 1841 Act”) shall have effect subject to the following modifications.

2

An application under section 1 of the 1841 Act shall be sent to the proper officer of either a county council or a district council F1(or, in Wales, a principal 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 sent.

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4

References, in whatever terms, in the 1841 Act—

a

to the justices by whom a person is appointed under section 1 of that Act shall be construed as references to the county council or the district council, as the case may require F1or, in Wales, the principal council), and

b

to the clerk of the peace for a county shall be construed as references to the proper officer of the county council or the district council as the case may require F1(or, in Wales, the principal council).

5

F3. . . References in that Act to a county include references to any F4preserved county or local government area within the meaning of this Act.