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

Regulations

Regulations promulgated in terms of Section 10 of the Land Survey Act, 1997 (Act No. 8 of 1997)

18. Survey records

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(1)The survey records referred to in paragraph (c) of section 11 of the Act shall comprise—
(a)a copy of each statutory consent relating to the survey, if applicable;
(b)a comprehensive report on the survey and on matters incidental thereto;
(c)field or other records from which positions of beacons were established;
(d)a co-ordinate list;
(e)a plan on which the following are recorded—
(i)the designations of the land under survey and the adjoining properties;
(ii)the relative positions, descriptions and designations of all beacons, stations or points used, adopted, fixed and calculated during the course of the survey: Provided that descriptions of beacons, stations or other points need not be shown if they appear on the co-ordinate list;

[Regulation 18(1)(e)(ii) substituted by section 4 of Notice No. 645 of 2013]

(iii)the positions of all curvilinear boundaries, which unless co-ordinates are provided, shall be plotted to the scale of the diagram to be framed or to a scale of 1/7 500;

[Regulation 18(1)(e)(iii) substituted by section 4 of Notice No. 645 of 2013]

(iv)the following certificate, which shall be signed and dated by each land surveyor involved in the survey:

 

"Surveyed by me in accordance with the provisions of the Land Survey Act, No 8 of 1997 and the regulations framed thereunder.

 

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Date of Survey

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Professional Land Surveyor

 

(Name) (Registration Number)"

 

(f)a data comparison plan which shall include:—
(i)the data derived from the survey;
(ii)the data obtained or deduced from the original and adjoining properties, in brackets;
(iii)the data finally adopted for the survey, which shall be underlined;
(iv)a comparison of the original, surveyed and adopted coordinates, if the original survey and the new survey are based on the same system of co-ordinates:

Provided that the data comparison may be furnished on the plan provided in paragraph (e).

 

(2)When a survey for the replacement of beacons involves only their replacement into co-ordinate positions previously established on the national control survey system, the land surveyor need only submit a copy of the relevant diagram or general plan on which the beacons replaced are indicated, together with a report in which any variations in the descriptions of beacons are mentioned.