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Boundaries and Survey Maps Act 1998 s 7

s 7 Coordinated cadastre

7. The Chief Surveyor is responsible for establishing a coordinated cadastre and may, for that purpose —(a) establish and maintain a network of survey control marks with recorded coordinates for use in surveying, mapping and related practice; (b) declare, by notice in the Gazette, specified areas to be designated survey areas, being areas of land in respect of which cadastral surveys must be carried out by reference to survey control marks in accordance with survey instructions under this Act, and for which coordinates must be determined in accordance with those instructions; (c) approve and record the coordinates of the boundaries of land within each designated area as determined by surveys carried out in the area (whether before or after the declaration of the area as a designated survey area), convert the coordinates recorded in relation to those parcels of land within the area and make any necessary adjustments to the recorded coordinates; (d) where the coordinates for all parcels of land within a designated survey area have been so approved, recorded, converted and adjusted, declare, by notice in the Gazette, that area to be within the coordinated cadastre; (e) generate, from the coordinated cadastre, maps for any area of land within the coordinated cadastre; and (f) where the coordinates for all parcels of land in Singapore have been declared to be within the coordinated cadastre under paragraph (d), declare, by notice in the Gazette, that the maps generated from the coordinated cadastre supersede all maps published under the repealed Act.

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