Land Survey Act, 1997 (Act No. 8 of 1997)19. Original survey of land to which no title has been issued |
| (1) | Whenever a land surveyor carries out a survey under the direction of the Surveyor-General of any piece of land to which no title deed has been issued and which is not represented on any diagram registered in a deeds registry or filed in a Surveyor-General’s office, the Surveyor-General shall, before approving a diagram of the land, publish a notice in the prescribed manner stating that copies of the diagram of that land are available for inspection at the office of the magistrate of the district in which the land is situate and at the Surveyor-General’s office. |
| (2) | The notice referred to in subsection (1) shall also state that if no objection by an owner of land contiguous to the land represented on the diagram is received within 60 days from the first publication of the notice, that diagram will be approved by the Surveyor-General. |
| (3) | The Surveyor-General may dispense with the publication of the notice referred to in subsection (1) if no contiguous owner’s rights would be adversely affected. |
| (4) | If within the period referred to in subsection (2) any owner of land contiguous to the land represented by that diagram lodges with the Surveyor-General an objection to the diagram or to any beacon or boundary adopted in the survey of that land, and any dispute arising from the objection cannot be settled by agreement of the parties thereto, section 29(5) and (8) shall with the necessary changes apply. |