Conwy Tunnel (Supplementary Powers) Act 1983

19 Correction of deposited plan. U.K.

(1) If the deposited plan or a book of reference to the plan is inaccurate in its description of any land, or in its statement or description of the ownership or occupation of any land, the Secretary of State, after giving not less than ten days notice to the owner, lessee or occupier of the land in question, may apply to two justices having jurisdiction in the place where the land is situated for the correction of the plan or (as the case may be) the book of reference.

(2) If on any such application it appears to the justices that the misstatement or wrong description arose from mistake or inadvertence, the justices shall certify accordingly and shall in their certificate state in what respect any matter is misstated or wrongly described.

(3) The certificate shall be deposited with the Chief Executive of the Gwynedd County Council and in the Office of the Clerk of the Parliaments and in the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons, and thereupon the deposited plan or the book of reference (as the case may be) shall be deemed to be corrected according to the certificate, and the Secretary of State may proceed under this Act as if the deposited plan or the book of reference had always been in the corrected form.

(4) A person with whom a copy of the certificate is deposited under this section shall keep it with the documents to which it relates.

(5) In this section, “book of reference” means a book deposited in connection with the Bill for this Act with the Chief Executive of the Gwynedd County Council and in the Office of the Clerk of the Parliaments and in the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons containing the names of the owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees, and occupiers of land which may be acquired under section 2 of this Act.