LAND SURVEY ACT (as amended at March 2004) sented on the said diagram were a piece of land such as is referred to in section eighteen or in subsection (1) of section twenty-three if section eighteen and subsection (2) of section twenty-three have, mutatis mutandis, been complied with in regard thereto and to all matters in connection therewith: Provided that every piece of land, a beacon or boundary whereof has a bearing on the piece of land represented on the said diagram, shall be deemed to be contiguous to such last-mentioned piece of land for the purposes of paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section eighteen; (b) when the difference is not beyond the prescribed limit of error and he is satisfied that the re-survey has been more accurately performed than the previous survey and that the positions of the beacons and boundaries adopted in both such surveys are identical, approve a new diagram of the land or a diagram of any portion thereof, prepared in accordance with the re-survey; (c) when the difference is beyond the prescribed limit of error in respect of certain only of the beacons and boundaries while the numerical data of the remaining beacons and boundaries either agree or do not differ beyond the said limit, approve a new diagram of the land or a diagram of any portion thereof prepared in accordance with the re-survey, if the provisions referred to in paragraph (a) have been complied with in regard to those beacons and boundaries the data whereof differ beyond the prescribed limit, and the conditions referred to in paragraph (b) are present in regard to all other beacons and boundaries: Provided that the Surveyor-General may at his discretion approve the diagram without compliance with the provisions of paragraph (b) of subsection(2) of section eighteen in respect of any beacon or boundary in regard to which there is documentary evidence in his office proving that the position determined for such beacon or boundary is correct: Provided that if he approves a new diagram of the whole piece of land, subsections (3) and (4) of section twenty-three shall apply, mutatis mutandis, in regard to such new diagram. him in consultation with the local authority, if any, of such township. (3) Before such re-survey is commenced, the SurveyorGeneral shall cause a notice of such intended re-survey to be published in one issue of a statutory instrument and once every week during two consecutive weeks in a newspaper circulating in the district in which such township is situate, and to be posted outside the office of the local authority of such township or, if there is no such local authority, outside the office of the district administrator. (4) During such re-survey a sufficient number of permanent reference marks shall be established at intervals throughout or in the vicinity of the area re-surveyed to enable the positions of the corner points of all pieces of land therein to be accurately recovered at any time, and it shall be lawful to place such reference marks in or on any building or other permanent structure or in any other place within or in the vicinity of the area re-surveyed under this section. (5) The owner of any property damaged by the placing of any such reference mark thereon shall be entitled to compensation for such damage. (6) Such reference marks shall be placed in position under the direction and supervision of the Surveyor-General or his deputy and shall conform with the prescribed specifications, which may vary for different townships. (7) If the area re-surveyed under this section is situate within the jurisdiction of a local authority, such local authority shall be responsible for the maintenance of all such reference marks, and any destruction of or damage to any such reference mark shall be made good by the SurveyorGeneral at the expense of such local authority. (8) All costs of and incidental to such re-survey, including any compensation paid or due under subsection (5), shall in the first instance be defrayed from moneys appropriated for the purpose by Act of Parliament and, if the area re-surveyed is situate within the jurisdiction of a local authority, the Minister may recover from that local authority such proportion of those costs as may have been agreed upon, prior to the commencement of the re-survey, between the Minister and that local authority or, failing such agreement, such proportion as the Minister may determine, and the amount so recovered by the Minister may be recovered by such local authority from the owners of land situate within the area resurveyed, and any part of such costs not so recovered by the Minister from such local authority shall be recovered from such owners in such manner as may be prescribed. (9) If the area re-surveyed is not situate within the jurisdiction of a local authority, the costs referred to in subsection (8), or such part thereof as the Minister deems equitable, shall be recovered from the owners of land situate within such area in such manner as may be prescribed. (10) The amount payable by the owners of land in terms of subsection (8) or (9) shall be apportioned among all such owners in accordance with a schedule to be framed by the Surveyor-General. 29 Diagram of exact fraction of land When a surveyed piece of land which is held in undivided shares is divided for the purpose of partition, the SurveyorGeneral may withhold his approval of a diagram purporting to represent an exact fraction of the total area of such surveyed piece of land until he is satisfied that such total area has been ascertained by a re-survey of the whole of such piece land. PART VI TOWNSHIPS 30 Re-survey of townships (1) Where the recognized boundaries of the pieces of land which compose a township do not conform with the boundaries shown on the diagrams or general plan representing such pieces of land, the Minister may cause the township or any defined portion thereof to be re-surveyed and a new general plan thereof to be prepared in accordance with such resurvey. (2) Such re-survey shall be carried out and such general plan shall be prepared under the direction of the SurveyorGeneral by a land surveyor or land surveyors appointed by 31 Approval of new general plan (1) The Surveyor-General shall not approve a new general plan of a township or of a defined portion thereof, resurveyed under section thirty, until a copy thereof has, during a period of six weeks, been available for inspection at his office and at the office of the local authority within whose jurisdiction the area re-surveyed is situate or, if there is no local authority, at the office of the district administrator of the district in which such area is situate, and until notice of his intention to approve the same has been published by the 11