Turf Development Act, 1981

Appointment of persons to prepare or examine bog development plans.

5.—(1) The Board may from time to time appoint a person or persons, on such terms and conditions as the Board may specify when making the appointment, to prepare, for the purposes of section 2 of this Act, plans or to examine plans already so prepared.

(2) Where there is lodged with the Board a plan in purported compliance with the requirements of section 4 of this Act and the plan is accompanied by a certificate given by a person who for the time being stands appointed under subsection (1) of this section certifying either that the plan has been prepared by him for the purposes of section 2 of this Act or that it has been examined by him and is in the form and contains the information for the time being required by the Board, the Board may thereupon regard the plan as having been lodged in compliance with the said requirements.