FORESTS ACT 1958 - SECT 73 Deposit of maps showing alterations in forests

FORESTS ACT 1958 - SECT 73

S. 73(1) amended by Nos 6976 s. 7(1)(j), 7228 s. 7(Sch.  4 Pt 12(c)), 10087 s. 3(1)(Sch. 1 item 89).

    (1)     Maps showing any land excised from or added to any reserved forest by the Governor in Council or any alteration of the boundaries of any reserved forest shall within one month of the making of any such excision or addition or alteration be signed by the Minister and deposited with the Clerk of the Parliaments:

S. 73(1) Proviso amended by No. 10087 s. 3(1)(Sch. 1 item 89).

Provided that if the Governor in Council is satisfied that any such map was, through inadvertence or any unavoidable circumstance, not signed and deposited as aforesaid within one month after the making of such an excision or addition or alteration, and the Surveyor-General or the person for the time being acting as the Surveyor-General certifies that the map is an original map truly showing the land so excised or added or altered, the Governor in Council may at any time after the making of such excision or addition or alteration authorize such map to be signed by the Minister and deposited with the Clerk of the Parliaments, and such map may be so signed and deposited accordingly.

    (2)     All maps or parts thereof certified under the hand of the Surveyor-General or the person for the time being acting as Surveyor-General to be copies of original maps or of parts thereof deposited with the Clerk of the Parliaments for the purposes of or pursuant to this Act or any corresponding previous enactment shall be admissible in evidence in any court of justice or before any person having by law or by consent of parties authority to hear receive and examine evidence and shall be prima facie evidence for the same purposes and to the same extent as the originals thereof if they had been produced. All courts of justice and persons having by law or by consent of parties authority to hear receive and examine evidence shall take judicial notice of the signature of the Surveyor‑General or the person for the time being acting as Surveyor-General affixed to any certificate under this section.

    (3)     The provisions of subsection (2) of this section shall with such alterations modifications and substitutions as are necessary extend and apply to all maps or parts thereof—

        (a)     certified under the hand of the Surveyor‑General or the person for the time being acting as the Surveyor-General to be reproductions of such original maps or parts thereof but drawn correctly to a larger scale than such originals; and

        (b)     accompanied by copies of the original maps or parts thereof drawn to the same scale as the original maps or parts thereof and certified as provided for in subsection (2) of this section.

General

No. 6073 s. 74.