Valuation Act, 2001

Valuation orders.

19.—(1) The Commissioner, after consultation with the Minister for the Environment and Local Government and the rating authority concerned, may make an order (in this Act referred to as a “valuation order”) specifying a rating authority area as being an area in relation to which the Commissioner proposes to appoint an officer of the Commissioner under subsection (2) to organise and secure the carrying out of a valuation of every relevant property situate in that area (other than any property specified in paragraph (a) or (b) of that subsection).

(2) As soon as may be after the making of a valuation order, the Commissioner shall appoint an officer of the Commissioner to organise and secure the carrying out of a valuation of every relevant property situate in the rating authority area specified in the order, other than—

(a) any relevant property the subject of an order under section 53 , or

(b) any relevant property specified in Schedule 4.

(3) The officer so appointed is referred to in this Act as a “valuation manager”.

(4) For the purposes of subsection (2), a valuation manager shall arrange for the carrying out of a valuation of each property concerned by one or more officers of the Commissioner (who may include that valuation manager).