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

43. Protection of trigonometrical stations
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(1)Except with the consent of the Chief Director, no person shall place any fence-post, fence-anchor or any other erection or make any excavation within one metre of any trigonometrical station, excluding a town survey mark.

[Section 43(1) substituted by section 19 of the Land Affairs General Amendment Act, 1998 (Act No. 61 of 1998), Notice No. 1214, GG 19291, dated 28 September 1998]

 

(2)The Minister may require that a servitude in favour of the State protecting a trigonometrical station, and ensuring an unobstructed view to and from any other trigonometrical station, be granted by the owner of any land upon or near which any trigonometrical station is situate, and cause that servitude to be registered against the title deed of that land: Provided that the costs of the registration of that servitude and any reasonable compensation for any depreciation in the value of the servient tenement by reason of the creation of the servitude shall be paid out of the National Revenue Fund established by section 213 of the Constitution.