DISTRIBUTED BY VERITAS
VERITAS MAKES EVERY EFFORT TO ENSURE THE PROVISION OF RELIABLE INFORMATION,
BUT CANNOT TAKE LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR INFORMATION SUPPLIED.
CHAPTER 20:12
LAND SURVEY ACT
Acts 12/1932, 37/1938 (s. 3), 35/1957 (ss. 20, 21 and 22), 80/1959, 14/1962 (s. 2), 45/1969,
80/1971 (s. 33), 5/1972 (Part II), 22/1976, 45/1976, 8/1980, 48/1981, 12/1987, 2/1993,
22/2001 (s. 4)1; R.G.Ns. 153/1963, 217/1970, 923/1972.
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
PART I
PRELIMINARY
Section
1.
Short title.
2.
Interpretation.
3.
Application of Act.
4.
Act binding on State.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Establishment of Surveyor-General’s office.
Appointment of Surveyor-General.
Duties of Surveyor-General.
Survey Regulations Board.
Regulations.
Office fees.
PART II
ADMINISTRATION
PART III
RECOGNITION AND DUTIES OF LAND SURVEYORS
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
Recognition as a land surveyor.
Training leading to recognition.
Duties of surveyor and non-liability of State.
Duties of surveyor when registration has ceased or been cancelled.
Suspension or cancellation of right to practise as surveyor.
Unauthorized practice as surveyor.
Performance of work by land-surveyors-in-training and land survey technicians.
PART IV
ORIGINAL SURVEYS AND RE-SURVEYS
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
Original survey of land.
Diagram of land surveyed under direction of Surveyor-General.
Rectification of title deeds after determination of boundary dispute.
Rules for arbitrators.
Approval of diagram of portion of unsurveyed land.
Replacing incorrect diagram by new diagram after re-survey.
Re-survey of block of land other than township.
PART V
DIVISION SURVEYS
25.
26.
27.
28.
29.
Subdivision of land.
Approval of survey records relating to subdivision.
Definition of geometrical figure and deduction of numerical extent of subdivision.
Rectification of errors ascertained by re-survey or division.
Diagram of exact fraction of land.
PART VI
TOWNSHIPS
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Criminal Penalties Amendment Act, 2001, with effect from 20th May, 2002
(penalties changed in sections 9, 16, 17, 37, 48 and 50).
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