Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Forests Act 1958 - SECT 73

Deposit of maps showing alterations in forests

73. Deposit of maps showing alterations in forests



(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:

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.

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