Valuation Act, 2001

Power to revoke certain appointments and appoint substitutes.

62.—(1) The Commissioner may, whenever he or she considers it appropriate to do so, revoke the appointment of an officer of the Commissioner made under—

(a) section 19 (2) (which relates to valuation managers), or

(b) subsection (2) or (3) of section 28 (each of which relates to revision officers),

and appoint another officer of the Commissioner for the purpose concerned under section 19 (2) or subsection (2) or (3) of section 28 , as appropriate.

(2) An officer of the Commissioner appointed in succession to another such officer whose appointment under an aforesaid provision is so revoke may carry on and complete anything commenced by his or her predecessor.

(3) A reference in this Act to the valuation manager who secured the carrying out of a valuation under section 19 shall—

(a) if the power of revocation and appointment of another officer of the Commissioner referred to in subsection (1) has been exercised in relation to that particular office, be construed (unless the case falls within paragraph (b)) as a reference to the officer of the Commissioner who for the time being stands appointed under section 19 (2) for the purpose concerned, and

(b) if the power of revocation as aforesaid has been exercised in relation to that particular office after the carrying out of the valuation to which the appointment revoked relates but before the completion of any act required by this Act to be done, or caused to be done, by that manager in consequence of the carrying out of that valuation, be deemed to be a reference to the officer of the Commissioner who for the time being stands appointed by the Commissioner to do or complete, or organise and secure the doing or completion of, that act (which appointment the Commissioner is hereby empowered to make).