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) 1. Definitions

 

In these regulations a word or expression to which a meaning has been assigned in the Act bears that meaning and, unless the context otherwise indicates—

 

"accurately determined"

means determined with a standard of accuracy conforming to that prescribed in regulation 5;

 

"an arc of observations"

means the mean of two rounds of observations to surrounding stations and beacons, one being taken in a clockwise direction and the other with the telescope transited, in an anti-clockwise direction;

 

"Chief Director"

[Definition deleted by section 2(a) of Notice No.  2248 of 2001]

 

"GNSS"

means the Global Navigation Satellite System;

[Defintion, formerly known as "GPS", substituted by section 1 of Notice No. 645 of 2013]

 

"metre"

means the unit of length as defined in Table 1 of the First Schedule to Government Notice R. 1146 of 5 July 1974 published in terms of section 3 of the Measuring Units and National Measuring Standards Act, 1973 (Act 76 of 1973), and for the purpose of—

1 Geodetic Cape foot = 0,314 855 575 16 metres

1 S.A. Geodetic foot ('English Foot') = 0,304 797 265 4 metres, and

1 morgen = 0,856 532 hectares,

1 acre = 0,404 686 hectaresl

[Definition substituted by section 2(b) of Notice No. 2248 of 2001]

 

"middle of a river"

means the line midway between the banks;

 

"original diagram"

means the diagram of the property being surveyed, resurveyed or subdivided;

 

"right or left bank of a river"

means that bank of the river which is on his or her right or left side, as the case might be, when the observer is looking downstream;

 

"rural land"

means all land not situate in a township or in a settlement;

 

"settlement"

means a group of pieces of land or of subdivisions of a piece of land which are used or intended for use mainly for farming or horticulture, and includes a combination of such groups, registered as such in a Deeds Registry;

 

"side"

when used in relation to a figure on a diagram or general plan, means a straight boundary line represented thereon, or the imaginary line joining any two beacons between which the boundary is curvilinear, and includes the line joining an unbeaconed corner point with the indicatory beacon defining such point;

 

"the Act"

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