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).