Barrow Drainage Act, 1927

Publication of draft scheme.

3.—(1) When the draft scheme has been prepared by the Commissioners the Commissioners shall—

(a) publish by advertisement in the Iris Oifigiúil and one or more newspapers circulating in the counties concerned a notice stating that the draft scheme has been made and the townlands to which it relates and naming convenient places where the draft scheme (with all maps and other documents annexed thereto) or a copy thereof can be inspected, and

(b) serve on all reputed proprietors and owners, and the rated or other occupiers of lands, rights, or other property proposed in the draft scheme to be compulsorily acquired, interfered with, or otherwise affected a copy of the notice to be published in the Iris Oifigiúil as aforesaid and also, in the case of every such proprietor, owner, and occupier, a notice informing him that the draft scheme proposes the compulsory acquisition of or interference or dealing with some land, right, or other property (which interference or dealing (if any) and property shall be fully described in the notice) owned or occupied by him, and

(c) serve on the local authority charged with the maintenance of any public road or bridge proposed in the draft scheme to be diverted, removed, or otherwise interfered with a copy of the notice to be published in the Iris Oifigiúil as aforesaid and also a notice informing such local authority of the diversion, removal, or other interference so proposed, and

(d) serve on every person owning any railway or navigation proposed in the draft scheme to be diverted, removed, or otherwise interfered with a copy of the notice to be published in the Iris Oifigiúil as aforesaid and also a notice informing such person of the diversion, removal, or other interference so proposed.

(2) Every notice served under this section on a reputed proprietor or owner or on a rated or other occupier of any lands, rights or other property or upon a local authority charged with the maintenance of any public road or bridge or upon a person owning any railway or navigation shall contain or be accompanied by a statement or notice requiring such proprietor, owner, or occupier, or such local authority or such person (as the case may require) if such proprietor, owner or occupier or such local authority or such person (as the case may be) has any objection to the draft scheme or any map or other document annexed thereto, to communicate such objection to the Commissioners in the manner and within the time (not being less than one month) therein specified.

(3) At the expiration of the time limited in the said notices for the communication to the Commissioners of objections to the draft scheme, the Commissioners shall examine all such objections so communicated to them and the Commissioners may reject any such objections which appear to them to be merely frivolous or vexatious.

(4) If on such examination of objections it appears that there are no such objections or all such objections are either rejected or withdrawn, the Commissioners shall present the draft scheme to the Minister for Finance for confirmation, but if on such examination it appears that there is any such objection which is not rejected or withdrawn, the Commissioners shall cause a public inquiry into such objections to be held as hereinafter provided.