• Land Survey Act, 1997 (Act No. 8 of 1997)
    • Notice No. 561 of 1997
    • Act
    • 1. Definitions
    • 2. Appointment, powers and functions of Chief Surveyor-General
    • 2A. Appointment, powers and functions of Chief Director
    • 3. Duties of Chief Surveyor-General
    • 3A. Duties of Chief Director
    • 4. Establishment of offices of Surveyor-General for provinces
    • 5. Appointment of Surveyor-General
    • 6. Powers and duties of Surveyor-General
    • 7. Delegation of powers
    • 8. Fees of office
    • 9. Survey regulations board
    • 10. Regulations
    • 11. Duties of land surveyor
    • 12. Improper conduct of land surveyor
    • 13. Limitation of liability
    • 14. No registration of land without approved diagram or general plan
    • 15. Manner of preparing diagram and general plan
    • 16. Diagram and general plan must be signed by land surveyor
    • 17. No approval of diagram of portion of unsurveyed land
    • 18. Original survey of land to which title has been issued
    • 19. Original survey of land to which no title has been issued
    • 20. Division surveys
    • 21. Diagram of exact fraction of land
    • 22. Land represented by incorrect diagram
    • 23. Rectification of overlap of diagrams
    • 24. Replacing existing diagram by new diagram after resurvey
    • 25. Resurvey of block of land other than township
    • 26. Resurvey of townships
    • 27. Approval of superseding general plan
    • 28. Registration of pieces of land on superseding general plan
    • 29. Resolution of boundary disputes
    • 30. Rules for arbitrators
    • 31. Rectification of title deeds after resolution of boundary dispute
    • 32. Survey of water feature or line parallel thereto defining boundary of State land
    • 33. Removal of uncertainty in description of river boundary
    • 34. Removal of uncertainty in description of curvilinear boundary other than a river boundary
    • 35. Beacons and boundaries lawfully established
    • 36. Correction of registered diagram
    • 37. Alteration or cancellation of general plan
    • 38. Diagram for consolidated title
    • 39. Manner of erecting beacons for survey purposes
    • 40. Reference marks
    • 41. Maintenance and re-erection of beacons
    • 42. Town survey marks
    • 43. Protection of trigonometrical stations
    • 44. Offences and compensation for damages sustained thereby
    • 45. Power of entry upon land
    • 46. Notice to Surveyor-General of application to court
    • 47. Act binding on State
    • 48. Repeal of laws of former entities, and transitional provisions
    • 49. Amendment of Act 40 of 1984, repeal of laws, and transitional provisions
    • 50. Repeal of laws of the Republic, and transitional provisions
    • 51. Short title
    • Schedules
      • Schedule I
        • Form : Agreement as to Beacons and Boundaries
      • Schedule II
        • Repeal of laws of former entities, and transitional provisions
      • Schedule III
        • Amendment of Act 40 of 1984
      • Schedule IV
        • Repeal of laws of the Republic
  • Regulations
    • Regulations promulgated in terms of Section 10 of the Land Survey Act, 1997 (Act No. 8 of 1997)
      • Notice No. R. 1130 of 1997
      • 1. Definitions
      • 2. Survey information
      • 3. Field measurements and observations
      • 4. Connection to the National Control Survey System
      • 5. Limits of allowable error in field work
      • 6. Limit of allowable difference from original survey
      • 7. Adoption of data
      • 8. Curvilinear boundaries
      • 9. Physical features affecting rights of ownership
      • 10. Alignment of existing beacons
      • 11. Specification for beacons
      • 12. When beacons are not required
      • 13. Indicatory beacons
      • 14. Marking of survey stations
      • 15. Damage to and removal of trigonometrical stations
      • 16. Reference marks
      • 17. Surveyor-General may test survey
      • 18. Survey records
      • 19. Diagrams
      • 20. General plans
      • 21. Servitudes
      • 22. Certified copies of diagrams or general plans
      • 23. Deductions, alterations, endorsements and withdrawals
      • 24. Correction of general plans
      • 25. Certificate of township or registered title
      • 26. Replacement of beacons
      • 27. Fees of office
      • 28. Arbitration proceedings
      • 29. Service and publishing of a notice
  • Notices
    • Scale of Fees to be charged in Branch National Geomatics Management Service - Effective 15 August 2022
      • Notice No. 2289 of 2022