s 15 Approval of cadastral surveys and assurance plans
15.—(1) No cadastral survey or survey plan thereof may be accepted or adopted for the purpose of any written law unless it has been approved by the Chief Surveyor. (2) No assurance plan may be lodged in the Registry of Deeds or the Land Titles Registry of the Authority (as the case may be) unless the assurance plan —(a) is signed by a registered surveyor and approved by the Chief Surveyor; and (b) bears a caution to the effect that the boundaries or dimensions and areas are inconclusive. (3) The Chief Surveyor may refuse to approve any survey plan or assurance plan under this section if —(a) the subdivision permission as required by section 12 of the Planning Act 1998 has not been obtained; (b) the prescribed survey fees have not been paid; or (c) an encroachment has been created by the purchaser or owner of a parcel of land being surveyed for any relevant purpose, which affects any parcel of land adjoining that parcel of land, and the registered surveyor who signs the plan has not certified that the encroachment has been resolved. (4) Where the subdivision of land has been authorised by a notification made by the Minister under section 21(6) of the Planning Act 1998, the Chief Surveyor is not, when the Chief Surveyor approves any survey plan under this section, obliged to enquire whether any condition set out in the notification or imposed by the competent authority under that Act has been satisfied or complied with. (5) Despite that a survey plan has been approved by the Chief Surveyor, it is the duty of the registered surveyor who signed the survey plan to ensure that the survey plan and all information and matters set out in the survey plan are correct and accurate. (6) In subsection (3)(c), “relevant purpose”, in relation to any survey of a parcel of land, means a survey for the purpose of —(a) obtaining a new State title for the parcel of land; (b) amalgamating the parcel of land; or (c) subdividing the parcel of land. (7) Any cadastral survey, survey plan or assurance plan approved before 31 March 2005 by the Chief Surveyor or other officer appointed by the Chief Surveyor under section 39 of the Land Surveyors Act 1991 then in force, is deemed to have been approved under this section.[11D