Valuation (Ireland) Act, 1852

Powers of Commissioner to deal with such complaint.

20. The said Commissioner of Valuation shall, on receipt of every such notice as aforesaid, inquire into the subject matter thereof, and, if necessary, direct a valuator or surveyor, as the case may require, who shall not have been previously employed in making the original valuation contained in the lists as aforesaid, to view such hereditament or tenement, and investigate the complaint stated in such notice, and report thereon to the said Commissioner of Valuation; and should it appear to him the said Commissioner of Valuation from such report that the valuation or statement of the area of the tenement or rateable hereditament referred to in any of such notices requires amendment, the Commissioner of Valuation shall have power to alter and amend the valuation or statement of the area of the tenement or rateable hereditament so appealed against, and also to alter and amend the valuation or statement of the area of any other tenement or hereditament against which there shall have been no appeal, but which may appear to him to be similarly circumstanced with those respecting which appeals have been made, in order to render the valuation of every tenement or hereditament comprised in such list proportionate and uniform.