LAND SURVEY ACT (as amended at March 2004) (5) Any area which is not specified in a notice made in terms of subsection (2) shall be served by the SurveyorGeneral’s office at Harare. (6) References in this Act or any enactment to the Surveyor-General’s office in relation to any land, any matter or thing connected with land or any general plan or diagram thereof shall be construed as a reference to the SurveyorGeneral’s office which serves the area wherein the land concerned or represented on or by the general plan or diagram is situated. (l) conduct the election referred to in paragraph (d) of subsection (2) of section eight in such manner as he sees fit; and, generally, exercise all such powers and perform all such duties as are by any enactment conferred or imposed upon the Surveyor-General, and perform such other duties as the Minister may assign to him. (2) Any officer employed in the Surveyor-General’s office who is a land surveyor may, if deputed by the SurveyorGeneral, do any act or thing which may lawfully be done under this Act or any other enactment by the SurveyorGeneral. 6 Appointment of Surveyor-General There shall be a Surveyor-General whose office shall be a public office and form part of the Public Service. 8 Survey Regulations Board (1) There shall be established a Survey Regulations Board. (2) The Board shall consist of— (a) the Surveyor-General or, in his absence, a land surveyor of his department nominated by him; (b) one land surveyor who is on the staff of the SurveyorGeneral in Harare, nominated by the Minister; (c) one land surveyor who is on the staff of the SurveyorGeneral in Bulawayo, nominated by the Minister; (d) three land surveyors, who shall hold office for a period of three years, elected by persons who are land surveyors on the date when a vacancy in such office occurs. (3) The Surveyor-General or, in his absence, a member of the Board nominated by him, shall be chairman of the Board. (4) The Chief Registrar may be co-opted as a member of the Board when, in the opinion of the chairman, regulations relating to or affecting the Deeds Registry or the registration of deeds are likely to come before the Board for consideration. (5) Whenever the chairman of the Board considers it necessary the Board shall hold a meeting at a time and place to be decided by the chairman. (6) A quorum of the Board shall be four of the members mentioned in subsection (2). (7) The decision of the majority of the members of the Board present at any meeting shall constitute the decision of the Board. In the event of an equality of votes the chairman shall have a casting vote in addition to his deliberative vote. 7 Duties of Surveyor-General (1) The Surveyor-General shall be in charge of the Surveyor-General’s office and he shall, subject to this Act— (a) supervise and control the survey and charting of land for purposes of registration in the Deeds Registry; (b) supervise and control all matters pertaining to aerial and space surveys conducted and geoinformation obtained in relation to Zimbabwe; (c) take charge of and preserve all records appertaining to surveys of land which were, prior to the 1st May, 1933, preserved as records in the Surveyor-General’s office, or which may become, after such date, records of the Surveyor-General’s office; (d) examine all general plans and diagrams or surveys of land before any registration of such land is effected in the Deeds Registry, and approve all such plans and diagrams if he is satisfied that such surveys have been carried out in such a manner as to ensure accurate results, and that such general plans and diagrams have been prepared and the boundaries of the land surveyed have been defined in accordance with the regulations; (e) on the diagram of any piece of land— (i) define the geometrical figure representing any portion of such land, the transfer deed whereof has been registered in the Deeds Registry, and deduct the numerical extent of such portion; (ii) define the geometrical figure representing any portion thereof for which a certificate of township title or a certificate of registered title has been issued, and deduct the numerical extent of such portion; (iii) define the geometrical figure representing that portion of the land in respect of which a real right or lease has been registered where the registration has been based on a diagram approved by the Surveyor-General; (f) cancel or amend in accordance with any enactment any general plan or diagram; (g) prepare, certify and issue at the request of any person, and on payment by such person of such fees as may be prescribed, copies of diagrams and other documents filed in his office, which are available to the public, and copies of general plans and diagrams registered in the Deeds Registry; (h) conduct such surveys as the Minister may direct; (i) prepare such maps as the Minister may direct; (j) take charge of and preserve all records relating to surveys conducted in accordance with paragraph (h); (k) prepare and maintain lists of official control points; 9 Regulations (1) The Board may, with the approval of the Minister,. make regulations prescribing— (a) subject to subsection (2), the fees to be paid by an owner of land for any survey of such land, including any records relating to such survey, the manner in which and the person by whom such fees may be taxed, the costs of such taxation and by whom they shall be borne; (b) the manner in which surveys shall be performed and the manner and form in which the records of such surveys shall be prepared and furnished to the Surveyor-General; (c) the degree of accuracy to be obtained and the limit of error to be allowed in surveys and re-surveys of land; (d) the diagrams and general plans required in connection with the registration of any land in the Deeds Registry, the manner of preparing such diagrams and general plans, the information to be recorded thereon and the number of such diagrams and general plans to be supplied; 4