Description of Land (Survey Plans) Act (Chapter 101)

LAWS OF BRUNEI Description of Land (Survey Plans) LAWS OF BRUNEI REVISED EDITION 1984 CHAPTER 101 DESCRIPTION OF LAND (SURVEY PLANS) !. ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS CAP. 101 Section 1. Short title 2. Certified plans to be sufficient compliance with law requiring notices of boundaries, etc. 3. Provisions regarding certified plans 4. Distribution of photographic copies of certified plans 5. Inspection 6. Further photographic copies 7. Making and certification of photographic copies 8. Admissibility in evidence SCHEDULE - Fees B.L.R.O. 111984 ;. .· LAWS OF BRUNEI Description of Land (Survey Plans) DESCRIPTION OF LAND (SURVEY PLANS) ACT CAP. 101 An Act to provide for the validity of certified plans for the 100!1962 description or identification of any land where such is required by any written law Commencement: 3rd September 1962 1. This Act may be cited as the Description of Land Shorttitle (Survey Plans) Act. .• 2. Where the provisions of any written law require that Certified for the purposes of any written law a notice shall be pub- r!~fi~i~~~e lished in the Gazette or otherwise specifying the boundaries ::~~!n~: of any land or area, or particulars necessary to identify any qui~ing r I d d fi . d . . h b d . notices o an or area, or e nmg or es1gnatmg t e oun anes or boundaries, limits of any land or area, it shall be sufficient if such land or etc. area is described by reference in such notice to a plan of such land or area certified, identified and deposited in the office of the Surveyor General in accordance with the provi sions of section 3. 3 3. (1) A plan shall be deemed to be certified and iden tified for the purpose of section 2 if Provisions re garding cer- · tified plans (a) it is certified and dated by the Surveyor General to be a true and correct plan of such land or area and by the authority by whom such notice is given to be the land or area to which such notice refers; and ( b) it is identified by a reference number. (2) Every such certified and identified plan shall be deposited in the office of the Surveyor General. B.L.R.O. l/1984 4 Distrihution of photo graphic copies of cer tified plans Inspection Further photographic copies Making and certification of photo graphic copies Admissihility in evidence CAP. 101 LAWS OF BRUNEI Description of Land (Survey Plans) 4. The authority, by whom any notice, which refers to a certified plan in accordance with the provisions of section 2, is given, may direct that so many photographically produced copies of such plan as he may require shall be made and distributed to the land office of the district in which the land or area to which such plan refers is situated, and to such public officer or officers as he shall specify. 5. Any person may inspect any certified plan or any photographically produced copy thereof made in accord ance with the provisions of this Act on any working day during normal office hours at the office of any officer who has custody of such plan or such copy thereof. 6. Any person, who so requests and on payment of the appropriate fee specified in the Schedule, shall be entitled to have made and delivered to him a photographically pro duced copy of any certified plan made for the purposes of this Act. 7. Every photographically produced copy of any cer tified plan made in pursuance of a direction given under section 4 shall be made by the Surveyor General authorised in writing by the s~id Surveyor General so to do, and shall be certified by the said Surveyor General or by the person making such copy to be a true and accurate copy of the original certified plan. 8. Every certified plan made for the purposes of this Act and any photographically produced copy of any such plan made in pursuance of a direction given under section 4 and in accordance with the provisions of section 7 shall be admissible in evidence without further proof in all courts of Brunei. LAWS OF BRUNEI Description of Land (Survey Plans) SCHEDULE (section 6) FEES Photostatic copies of a certified plan Reflex or Apollo print copies of a ceF tified plan ... CAP. 101 $10.00 for each nega tive or positive copy $10.00 for each posi tive copy 5 B.L.R.O. 111984 i