South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts (1) The
Surveyor-General is responsible for establishing a coordinated cadastre for
the State and may, for that purpose—
(a)
establish and maintain a network of permanent survey marks with recorded
coordinates for use in surveying, mapping or related practice; and
(b)
declare, by notice in the Gazette, specified areas of the State to be
designated survey areas, being areas of land in respect of which cadastral
surveys must be carried out by reference to permanent survey marks in
accordance with survey instructions in force under this Act, and for which
coordinates must be determined in accordance with those instructions; and
(c)
record the coordinates of the boundaries of land within each
designated survey area as determined by surveys carried out in the area
(whether before or after the declaration of the area as a
designated survey area), compare the coordinates recorded in relation to all
allotments of land within the area and make any necessary adjustments to the
recorded coordinates; and
(d)
where the coordinates for all allotments of land within a
designated survey area have been so recorded, compared and adjusted—
(i)
declare, by notice in the Gazette, that part of the State
to be within the coordinated cadastre; and
(ii)
lodge with the Registrar-General for filing in the Lands
Titles Registration Office a plan delineating the boundaries of those
allotments on the basis of those coordinates.
(2) A plan may be
lodged under subsection (1)(d) by means of lodging a hard copy of the
plan or by the electronic transfer of information.
(3) The
Surveyor-General may, by notice in the Gazette, declare a mark or peg of a
specified class to be a survey mark that may be used in the network of
permanent survey marks under subsection (1).
(4) A notice under
subsection (3) may be varied or revoked by subsequent notice in the
Gazette.