Cadastral Survey Act 2002

52 Correction of errors in survey

• (1) If an error is found in a cadastral survey dataset affecting any title under the Land Transfer Act 1952 or any title or tenure under any other Act, the Surveyor-General may, in writing, require the cadastral surveyor responsible for the error to undertake, or arrange to be undertaken, the work necessary to correct the error within a time that the Surveyor-General considers reasonable.

  (2) Subsection (1) does not limit—

  • (a) the powers granted in sections 7 and 46 of the Crown Grants Act 1908:

  • (b) the powers of the Registrar under sections 80 and 81 of the Land Transfer Act 1952, or the provisions of section 170 of that Act:

  • (c) the powers of any court under any enactment.

  (3) In subsection (1), cadastral surveyor includes a former licensed cadastral surveyor and a person who was a registered surveyor under the Survey Act 1986.

  Section 52(1): amended, on 27 March 2008, by section 7(1)(a) of the Cadastral Survey Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 7).

  Section 52(1): amended, on 27 March 2008, by section 7(1)(b) of the Cadastral Survey Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 7).

  Section 52(3): added, on 27 March 2008, by section 7(2) of the Cadastral Survey Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 7).