Land Survey Act, 1997 (Act No. 8 of 1997)

No general plan or diagram shall be approved by the Surveyor-General unless it is prepared under the direction of and signed by a land surveyor: Provided that in exceptional circumstances the Surveyor-General may approve a general plan or diagram framed at his or her direction from general plans, diagrams or survey records filed in his or her office or registered in a deeds registry, without the signature thereon of the land surveyor who signed those general plans, diagrams or survey records.