Survey Act, 1870

Transfer of powers to Commissioners of Works.

3. All the powers, authorities, and things which under the Survey (Ireland) Acts, or the Ordnance Survey Act, 1841, are, or, but for the transfer to Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the War Department would be, vested in or capable of being exercised and done by the Master General and Board of Ordnance shall be vested in and capable of being exercised and done by the Commissioners of Works, and not by the said Secretary of State, and those Acts shall be construed as if the Commissioners of Works were substituted throughout for the Master General and Board of Ordnance.

[S. 4 rep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39. (S.L.R.)]