Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act, 1945

Deposit of maps, plans, etc.

9.—(1) As soon as may be after the making of an approval order and not later than one month before commencing the construction of any particular part of the works required for the purpose of the execution of the approved scheme to which such order relates or commencing to do for that purpose any particular thing which the Board is authorised by this Act to do or for that purpose entering on any land or premises or exercising any right or interfering with any property (corporeal or incorporeal) under this Act, the Board shall cause maps, plans, and books of reference in relation to such particular part of such works or such particular thing or such land, premises, right, or property (as the case may be) to be deposited in accordance with this section.

(2) The maps and plans required by this section to be deposited by the Board in relation to an approved scheme shall be sufficient in quantity and character to show on adequate scales the extent of the works in relation to which they are deposited and also all property, corporeal or incorporeal, proposed to be acquired for the purpose of such works and also every interference (so far as the same can be shown on a drawing) proposed to be made for the said purpose with any property (corporeal or incorporeal) or any public road or bridge.

(3) The books of reference required by this section to be deposited by the Board in relation to an approved scheme shall contain the names of the owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees, and occupiers of all land proposed to be acquired or otherwise affected under this Act for the purpose of the works in relation to which they are deposited and of all property, corporeal or incorporeal, (including public roads and bridges)·proposed to be in any way interfered with under this Act for the said purpose.

(4) The maps, plans, and books of reference required by this section to be deposited by the Board in relation to an approved scheme shall be deposited at the head office of the Board in the City of Dublin and at such other places as shall be prescribed by the Minister in the approval order relating to such approved, scheme and shall remain so deposited until the completion of such approved scheme and shall, while so deposited, be open to inspection by any person, free of charge, between the hours of ten o'clock in the morning and four o'clock in the afternoon on every day except Saturdays, Sundays, and bank holidays.

(5) As soon as may be after the deposit of any maps, plans, or books of reference in pursuance of this section, the Board shall give public notice of such deposit by advertisement published twice in each of two or more daily newspapers circulating in the City of Dublin and in such (if any) other newspapers as shall be prescribed by the Minister in the relevant approval order.

(6) Every public notice given by the Board in pursuance of the next preceding subsection of this section shall state that the maps, plans, and books of reference to which such notice relates are open to public inspection in accordance with this section and shall state the times and places at which they are so open to inspection.