Section 7 Errors and omissions in special Act, or Schedules thereto, may be corrected by justices, &c., who shall certify the same. Certificate to be deposited.C5C1C2C3C4
United Kingdom
If any omission, mis-statement, or wrong description shall have been made of any lands, or of the owners, lessees, or occupiers of any lands, described or purporting to be described in the special Act, or in the schedule thereto, the undertakers, after giving ten days’ notice to the owners, lessees, and occupiers of the lands affected by such proposed correction, may apply in England or Ireland to two justices, and in Scotland to the sheriff, for the correction thereof; and if it appear to such justices or sheriff that such omission, mis-statement, or wrong description arose from mistake, they or he shall certify the same accordingly, and shall in such certificate state the particulars of any such omission, mis-statement, or wrong description; and such certificate shall be deposited in England or Ireland with the clerk of the peace, and in Scotland with the sheriff clerk, of the county in which the lands affected thereby shall be situated, or, where any such lands are situated in a royal burgh in Scotland, with the town clerk of such burgh; and such certificate shall be kept by such clerk of the peace, sheriff clerk, or town clerk, with the other documents to which they relate, and thereupon the special Act or schedule shall be deemed to be corrected according to such certificate; and the undertakers may make the works in accordance with such certificate, as if such omission, mis-statement, or wrong description had not been made.
Annotations
Modifications
- C1
References to “sheriff clerk of the county” to be construed as references to “sheriff clerk of sheriff court district concerned”: Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65), Sch. 27 Pt. I para. 1(3)
- C2
References to “town clerk of royal burgh” to be construed as references to “proper officer of local authority”: Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65), Sch. 27 Pt. I para. 2
- C3
Reference to “Ireland” to be construed as exclusive of Republic of Ireland: S.R. & O. 1923/405 (Rev. X, p. 298: 1923, p. 400), art. 2
- C4
Reference to “the chief clerk for the county court division in which the lands affected thereby shall be situated” to be construed (N.I.) as a reference to “the chief clerk” (31.10.2016): Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 9), Sch. 1 para. 12(1) (with Sch. 8 para. 1)
- C5
References to “clerk of the peace of the county” to be construed as references to “proper officer of the county council”: Courts Act 1971 (c. 23), Sch. 8 Pt. I para. 1(2) and Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 29 para. 4(1)(b)