| (1) | A Surveyor-General shall be in charge of the office in respect of which he or she has been appointed and shall, subject to this Act— |
| (a) | take charge of and preserve all records pertaining to surveys of land which were, prior to the commencement of this Act, preserved as records in that Surveyor-General’s office and which, after the commencement, become records of that office; |
| (b) | before any registration is effected in a deeds registry, examine and approve or provisionally approve all general plans and diagrams which have been prepared in accordance with this Act and, when applicable, are in accordance with any statutory consent in so far as the layout is concerned; |
| (c) | on the diagram of any piece of land— |
| (i) | define the geometrical figure representing any portion of that land, the transfer of which has been registered in a deeds registry, and deduct the numerical extent of that portion; |
| (ii) | define the geometrical figure representing any portion thereof for which a certificate of township title or registered title has been issued under the Deeds Registries Act, 1937 (Act No. 47 of 1937), and deduct the numerical extent of that portion; and |
| (iii) | define the geometrical figure and make the necessary endorsements in respect of any servitude or lease over or on that land which has been surveyed in terms of this Act and registered in a deeds registry; |
| (d) | cancel or amend in accordance with the provisions of any law any general plan or diagram; |
| (e) | prepare, certify and issue, at the request of any person and on payment by that person of the prescribed fees, copies of diagrams, general plans and other documents filed in his or her office and available to the public, and copies of general plans and diagrams registered in a deeds registry in the province concerned; |
| (f) | compile and amend such cadastral plans as may be required, |
and generally exercise all such powers and perform all such duties as are by any law conferred or imposed upon a Surveyor-General, and perform such other functions as the Chief Surveyor-General may assign to him or her.
| (2) | Any land surveyor employed in a Surveyor-General’s office may, if delegated thereto by the Surveyor-General concerned, perform any function which may be performed in terms of this Act or any other law by that Surveyor-General and a Surveyor-General may delegate any power referred to in subsection (1)(c), (d), (e) and (f) to any person employed in his or her office. |
[Section 6(2) substituted by section 13 of the Land Affairs General Amendment Act, 1998 (Act No. 61 of 1998), Notice No. 1214, GG 19291, dated 28 September 1998]
