Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1981

Certificate of valuation.

[1940 UA, s. 5]

154.—(1) The Commissioner of Valuation shall, whenever so requested by the Minister, furnish to the Minister a certificate stating, with due regard to the provisions of this Chapter, the rateable value for the purposes of section 153 at the beginning of any particular financial year specified in such request of any particular urban area so specified.

(2) A certificate furnished by the Commissioner of Valuation to the Minister in pursuance of this section shall be conclusive evidence for the purposes of this Chapter of the rateable value of the urban area to which such certificate relates at the beginning of the financial year specified in that behalf in such certificate.

[1960 MP, s. 12]

(3) Where the Commissioner of Valuation is satisfied that any certificate furnished by him under this section or amended by him under this subsection is erroneous, by reason of a mistake in relation to any matter of law or fact to which regard was had by the Commissioner in the drawing up of the certificate, or in the light of any matter of fact which has come to his notice since the furnishing of the certificate, the Commissioner may amend the certificate for the purpose of correcting the error therein and subsection (2) shall have effect in relation to a certificate amended under this subsection as if the references therein to a certificate were references to a certificate amended under this subsection.