Land Survey Act, 1997 (Act No. 8 of 1997)20. Division surveys |
| (1) | Whenever the owner of a surveyed piece of land desires to subdivide that land and to effect separate registration of one or more portions of the land in a deeds registry, each of the portions to be so registered shall be surveyed and a diagram thereof shall be submitted for examination to the Surveyor-General, who shall approve every such diagram if it has been prepared in accordance with this Act: Provided that— |
| (a) | if it is desired to effect separate registration of the remaining extent of such piece of land it shall not be compulsory to so submit a diagram of the remaining extent; and |
| (b) | if the diagrams of two or more portions comprising the whole of such piece of land have been approved, the Surveyor-General shall notify the Registrar, and thereafter no registration relating in any way to the land comprising the remaining extent after the penultimate portion has been registered, shall take place unless the Surveyor-General has consented to and effected the cancellation of the diagram of the last portion, or unless that diagram has been substituted for the existing diagram in accordance with the Deeds Registries Act, 1937 (Act No. 47 of 1937). |
| (2) | Upon separate registration of any portion referred to in subsection (1) being effected, the Surveyor-General shall define on the copy of the diagram of the land so divided filed in his or her office, and may define on the copy of the diagram filed in the deeds registry and on the copy belonging to the owner of the remaining extent, the geometrical figure representing that portion and deduct its numerical extent: Provided that, where prescribed, the definition and deduction may be made on a general plan instead of on a diagram. |
| (3) | Section 24(1) and (2) shall with the necessary changes apply in respect of the beacons and boundaries of any portion of land surveyed in terms of this section. |