LAND SURVEY ACT (as amended at March 2004)
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Re-survey of townships.
Approval of new general plan.
New general plan supersedes erroneous diagrams.
PART VII
BEACONS AND BOUNDARIES
Beacons and boundaries lawfully established.
Manner and cost of erecting beacons for survey purposes.
No poles to be placed near beacon.
Repair or re-erection of beacons.
Offences and compensation in respect thereof.
Authority to remove beacons.
PART VIII
GENERAL PLANS AND DIAGRAMS
Manner of preparing diagram.
No registration of land without approved diagram.
Diagram must be signed by surveyor.
Consolidation of land.
Approval of diagrams for consolidated title.
Registrar and owner to be informed of incorrect diagram.
Correction of general plan or diagram.
Cancellation or amendment of approved diagram or general plan.
Cancellation or amendment of general plan of township.
Surveyor-General may require submission of diagram.
Surveyor-General may dispense with diagrams.
PART IX
MISCELLANEOUS
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Powers of entry upon land.
Acquisition of servitudes.
SCHEDULE: Form.
AN ACT to consolidate and amend the laws relating to the survey of land.
[Date of commencement: 1st May, 1933.]
“Council of Land Surveyors” means the Council of Land
Surveyors established in terms of the Land Surveyors Act
[Chapter 27:06];
“Court” means the High Court;
“diagram”, subject to subsection (3) of section forty-nine,
means a document containing geometrical, numerical and
verbal representations of a piece of land or a line, feature or
area forming the basis for registration of a real right which
has been signed by a person recognized, under any enactment then in force, as a land surveyor, or which has been
approved or certified by the Surveyor-General or other officer
empowered under any enactment so to approve or certify a
diagram, and includes a diagram or copy thereof prepared in
the Surveyor-General’s office and approved or certified as
aforesaid or a document which has at any time, prior to the
1st May, 1933, been accepted as a diagram in the Deeds
Registry or the Surveyor-General’s office, but does not
include a diagram framed from a compass survey;
“general plan” means a plan which, representing the
relative position and dimensions of one or more pieces of
land, has been signed by a person recognized, under any
enactment then in force, as a land surveyor, or which has
been approved or certified as a general plan by the SurveyorGeneral or other officer empowered under any enactment so
to approve or certify a general plan, and includes a general
plan or a copy thereof prepared in the Surveyor-General’s
office and approved or certified as aforesaid, or a general
plan which has at any time, prior to the 1st May, 1933, been
accepted for registration in the Deeds Registry or the
Surveyor-General’s office;
PART I
PRELIMINARY
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Short title
This Act may be cited as the Land Survey Act [Chapter
20:12].
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Interpretation
In this Act—
“approve”, in relation to the Surveyor-General and to any
general plan or diagram, means the signing of such general
plan or diagram in order to signify that the requirements of
this Act have been complied with in regard to such general
plan or diagram;
“beacon” means the object or mark on the ground defining or indicating a corner of a piece of land of which a
general plan or diagram has been approved by the SurveyorGeneral;
“bench mark” means a mark the height of which has
been determined in the course of a level survey undertaken in
terms of this Act or the Trigonometrical and Topographical
Survey Act, 1958 (No. 2 of 1958);
“Board” means the Survey Regulations Board established
under section eight;
“Chief Registrar” means the person appointed as Chief
Registrar of Deeds in terms of paragraph (a) of subsection
(1) of section 4 of the Deeds Registries Act [Chapter 20:05];
“consolidation permit” means a permit to consolidate
two or more properties into one granted in terms of section
41 of the Planning Act;
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