Local Government (Dublin) Act, 1930
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Preparation of official maps. |
18.—(1) As soon as may be after the passing of this Act the Commissioner of Valuation shall prepare in duplicate a map drawn to such convenient scale and in such convenient number of separate sheets as shall be approved by the Minister showing in suitable manner approved by the Minister the added rural areas as described in the First Schedule to this Act, the added urban districts, and the Existing City, and shall seal both duplicates of such map and shall deposit one of such duplicates in his principal office in the City and shall deposit the other of such duplicates in the offices of the City Corporation. | |
(2) The said maps when so deposited in the said offices of the said Commissioner and the City Corporation respectively shall be retained in such offices, and such maps or true copies thereof shall be open for inspection free of charge in such offices by any person at any time at which such offices respectively are open for the transaction of public business, and it shall be lawful for the said Commissioner and the City Corporation respectively to prepare and supply to any person requesting the same a true copy of the map so deposited with him or them or any particular part thereof and to charge for such copy such sum as the Minister, with the sanction of the Minister for Finance, shall direct. | ||
(3) It shall be the duty of the said Commissioner and of the City Corporation respectively, whenever required so to do by any Court of Justice, to prepare and produce to such Court a true copy of the map or any specified part of the map deposited with him or them under this section and to verify such copy to such Court by the oath of one of his or their officers, and, upon any such copy being so produced and verified to such Court, such Court shall receive such copy in evidence and thereupon such copy shall be conclusive evidence of the boundaries (so far as the same are shown on such copy) of the areas comprised in the added rural area and in the added urban districts respectively, notwithstanding (in the case of the added rural area) any discrepancy between such copy and the description contained in the First Schedule to this Act or any ambiguity or uncertainty in such description or in the application thereof. |