Section 17 Amendment of principal Act, s. 44.

Section forty-four of the principal Act in so far as it empowers the Secretary of State to give direction with respect to the preservation of books, records or documents, shall apply in any case where the Secretary of State is satisfied that the powers and duties of the heritors of a parish have been extinguished, notwithstanding that intimation of such extinction may not have been made by the clerk to the heritors of the parish in pursuance of the said section.