LAND SURVEY

CHAPTER 59:03
LAND SURVEY

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

    SECTION

PART I
PRELIMINARY

    1.    Short title

    2.    Interpretation

PART II
ADMINISTRATION

    3.    Surveyor General and other officers

    4.    Duties and functions of the Surveyor General

PART III
LAND SURVEYORS REGISTRATION BOARD

    5.    Establishment of Land Surveyors Registration Board

    6.    Powers and functions of the Board

    7.    Composition of the Board

    8.    Chairperson and Vice Chairperson of the Board

    9.    Disqualification of members of the Board

    10.    Tenure and nature of office of members of the Board

    11.    Vacancies and filling of vacancies in the Board

    12.    Meetings of the Board

    13.    Committees of the Board

    14.    Allowances of members of the Board and its committees

    15.    Invited persons

    16.    Board not liable for acts done in good faith

    17.    Funds of the Board

    18.    Investment of surplus sums of money

    19.    Borrowing powers of the Board

    20.    Financial year of the Board

    21.    Books of accounts, audits and reports

    22.    Annual report of the Board

    23.    Registrar

    24.    Duties of the Registrar

    25.    Other staff

    26.    Attendance of meetings by staff

PART IV
LICENSING, REGISTRATION AND DUTIES OF SURVEYORS

    27.    Application for a licence and registration

    28.    Qualifications for licensed surveyors

    29.    Licensing and registration of surveyors

    30.    Qualifications for registration as a licensed surveyor

    31    Qualifications for registration as a graduate surveyor

    32.    Qualifications for registration as a surveying technician

    33.    Certificate of registration

    34.    Registers

    35.    Corrections of registers

    36.    Duties of a surveyor

    37    Surveying instruments to be accurate

    38.    Complaints against a surveyor

    39.    Misconduct and disciplinary measures

    40.    Persons other than surveyors forbidden to carry out land surveys

    41.    Survey plans to be deposited with the Surveyor General and to be property of the Government

    42.    Aerial and topographic survey and topographic mapping

    43.    Approval of surveys by the Surveyor General

    44.    Surveyor General may cancel approval of a plan

PART V
SURVEY MARKS AND BOUNDARIES

    45.    Survey marks and boundaries lawfully established

    46.    Survey of Traditional Land Management Areas etc.

    47.    Sites of trigonometrical stations and fundamental benchmarks reserved to Government

    48.    Blasting of rock within area reserved for a fundamental benchmark prohibited

    49.    No posts or fences to be placed near survey mark

    50.    Preservation and maintenance of survey marks

    51.    Surveyor General may call upon owner of land to restore survey mark

    52.    Offences, penalties and compensation

    53.    Authority to remove survey marks

PART VI
MALAWI GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION COUNCIL

    54.    Establishment of the Malawi Geographic Information Council

    55.    Functions and powers of the Council

    56.    Composition of the Council

    57.    Secretary to the Council

    58.    Nature of service and tenure of a member of the Council

    59.    Disqualifications

    60.    Vacancies and filling of vacancies

    61.    Meetings of the Council

    62.    Committees of the Council

    63.    Allowances of members of the Council and its committees

    64.    Invited persons

    65.    Funds of the Council

    66.    Investment of surplus funds

    67.    Borrowing powers of the Council

    68.    Financial year of the Council

    69.    Accounts and reports

    70.    Annual report

PART VII
MISCELLANEOUS

    71.    Government not liable for incorrect survey

    72.    Board or Council not liable for acts done in good faith

    73    Plans and records, etc., prima facie evidence of contents therein

    74.    Power of Surveyor General to enter land and to use material thereon

    75.    Regulations

    76.    Repeal and savings

CHAPTER 59:03
LAND SURVEY

18 of 2016
11 of 2022
G.N. 62/2017
25/2022

    An Act to provide for land surveys; the establishment of the Land Surveyors Registration Board; the licensing and control of land surveyors; the establishment of the Malawi Geographic Information Council, and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto

PART I
PRELIMINARY

1.    Short title

    This Act may be cited as the Land Survey Act.

2.    Interpretation

    In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

    “aerial survey” includes a survey conducted using aircraft, drone, balloon or any unmanned vessel;

    “Board” means the Land Surveyors Registration Board established under section 4;

    “cadastre” means a methodically arranged public inventory of data on properties within a district based on a survey of the property boundaries;

    “general plan” means a document containing geometrical, numerical and verbal representations of a piece of land, which has been approved or certified by the Surveyor General or a copy thereof prepared in the Surveyor General’s office and approved and certified as aforesaid, and includes a document…