{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/channel-tunnel-act-1987/schedule-5/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/channel-tunnel-act-1987/schedule-5/paragraph-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1987/53",
  "legislation_title": "Channel Tunnel Act 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/channel-tunnel-act-1987",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) If the deposited plans or the book of reference to those plans are inaccurate in their description of any land, or in their statement or description of the ownership or occupation of any land, the appropriate authority, after giving not less than ten days’ notice to the owner, lessee and occupier of the land in question, may apply to two justices having jurisdiction in the place where the land is situated for the correction thereof.\n(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.\n(3) The certificate shall be deposited in the office of the Clerk of the Parliaments and a copy thereof in the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons and with the proper officer of each County Council or London Borough Council in whose area is situated the land to which the certificate relates, and thereupon the deposited plans or the book of reference thereto (as the case may be) shall be deemed to be corrected according to the certificate, and it shall be lawful for the appropriate authority, in accordance with the certificate, to proceed under this Act as if the deposited plans or the book of reference had always been in the corrected form.\n(4) A person with whom a copy of the certificate is deposited under this paragraph shall keep it with the documents to which it relates.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1987/53/schedule/5/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:51:20.395460+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}