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Local Government Act 1972

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191 Ordnance survey.

(1) In its application outside Greater London, the Ordnance 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 (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. (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (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 or, 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 (or, in Wales, the principal council). (5) . . . References in that Act to a county include references to any preserved county or local government area within the meaning of this Act.

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191 Ordnance survey.

(1) In its application outside Greater London, the Ordnance 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 (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. (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (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 or, 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 (or, in Wales, the principal council). (5) . . . References in that Act to a county include references to any preserved county or local government area within the meaning of this Act.

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