LAND SURVEY ACT (as amended at March 2004) by him after such date for the replacement of a lost beacon; and (d) when required by the Surveyor-General, without delay, correct in any survey carried out by such land surveyor after the 1st May, 1933, or in any work appertaining thereto, any error which is in excess of the prescribed limits of error, and take such steps as may be necessary to ensure the amendment of any diagram, general plan and title deed based on such incorrect survey, and to adjust the position of any beacon which he has placed in accordance with such incorrect survey. (2) As soon as practicable after the 1st May, 1933, the Surveyor-General shall examine all such records as are mentioned in paragraph (c) of subsection (1) before approving any general plan or diagram to which such records refer. (3) Neither the State nor any officer thereof shall be liable for any defective survey or work appertaining thereto performed by a land surveyor, notwithstanding that a general plan or diagram relating to such survey or work has been approved by the Surveyor-General or accepted for registration in the Deeds Registry. 14 Duties of surveyor when registration has ceased or been cancelled (1) The Surveyor-General may, by notice in writing, direct any person whose registration as a land surveyor in terms of the Land Surveyors Act [Chapter 27:06] has ceased or been cancelled, to employ, at his own expense, within such period as may be specified in the notice, a land surveyor for the purpose of ensuring— (a) correction of any defect or omission that related to his duties in terms of section thirteen; (b) compliance with his responsibilities in terms of section thirteen; (c) compliance with any requirement that might have been made of him in terms of section thirteen; on or before the day his registration ceased or was cancelled. (2) Where any direction given in terms of subsection (1) is not complied with the Surveyor-General may employ a land surveyor to comply with the direction and the costs so incurred shall become a debt due to the State by the person to whom the direction was given. (d) makes, whether personally or by his land surveyor-intraining or land survey technician, any entry in a field book, copy of a field book or other document which purports to have been derived from actual observation or measurement in the field when it was not in fact so derived; or (e) supplies erroneous information to the SurveyorGeneral in connection with any survey, boundaries or beacons of land, knowing it to be erroneous or without taking reasonable steps to ascertain its accuracy; or (f) is, in the opinion of the Surveyor-General, guilty of such improper or disgraceful conduct as to render him liable to disciplinary action; the Minister, acting on the advice of the Surveyor-General, shall lodge a charge against such land surveyor with the Council of Land Surveyors for the purpose of an inquiry in terms of section 23 of the Land Surveyors Act [Chapter 27:06]. (2) A land surveyor may adopt the co-ordinates and description of an official control point. 16 Unauthorized practice as surveyor (1) No person, except a land surveyor entitled to practise as such, shall— (a) perform any survey for the purpose of preparing any diagram or general plan to be filed or registered in the Deeds Registry or referred to in any manner whatsoever in any other document to be so filed or registered; or (b) perform any survey affecting the delimitation of the boundaries or the location of the beacons of any land registered or to be registered in the Deeds Registry; or (c) hold himself out in any manner whatever as a land surveyor. (2) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level six or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months or both such fine and such imprisonment. 17 Performance of work by land-surveyors-intraining and land survey technicians (1) Subject to this section, nothing contained in this Act shall be construed as prohibiting— (a) the employment by a land surveyor of a land surveyorin-training or land survey technician on; or (b) the performance by a land surveyor-in-training or land survey technician of; work which may, in terms of rules made under the Land Surveyors Act [Chapter 27:06] be performed by the land surveyor-in-training or land survey technician concerned. (2) Any work performed by a land surveyor-in-training or land survey technician in terms of this Act, as read with rules made under section 34 of the Land Surveyors Act [Chapter 27:06] shall be carried out on the instructions and under the guidance of a land surveyor who shall bear full responsibility for all such work performed: Provided that no land surveyor shall— (a) instruct and guide more than two land surveyors-intraining at any one time; or (b) until such time as the cancellation, suspension or disqualification is terminated, employ any land surveyor-in-training or land survey technician— (i) whose registration has been cancelled in terms of the Land Surveyors Act [Chapter 27:06]; or (ii) who has been suspended or disqualified from practising as such in terms of the Land Surveyors Act [Chapter 27:06]; 15 Suspension or cancellation of right to practise as surveyor (1) Subject to subsection (2), if a land surveyor— (a) signs, except as provided in section thirty-one, a general plan or a diagram of any piece of land in respect of which— (i) he has not carried out or personally supervised the field operations either by his presence in the field or by exercising control by personal instruction; and (ii) he has not carefully examined, and satisfied himself of the correctness of, the entries in any field book, and the calculations, working plans and other records in connection therewith, which may have been made by any other person; or (b) signs a defective general plan or diagram knowing it to be defective; or (c) repeatedly performs, whether personally or by his land surveyor-in-training or land survey technician, through negligence or incompetence, defective surveys or surveys to which adequate checks have not been applied; or 6