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Public Works Act 1981

Acquisition of land for public works - Miscellaneous provisions

32: Survey and plan not required in certain cases

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“Sometimes you don't need to make new maps when dealing with land”

When you’re dealing with land for certain purposes, you don’t always need a survey and plan. If you’re working with all the land or what’s left of the land described in a record of title, you can just say that instead of making a new description. If the land was already described in an official document before, you can use that same description again. If you’re dealing with all of a separate lot or surveyed subdivision shown on an official plan, you can just refer to that lot or subdivision on the plan. These rules make it easier to identify land without always needing new surveys or plans.

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Part 2 Acquisition of land for public works
Miscellaneous provisions

32Survey and plan not required in certain cases

  1. For the purposes of sections 20, 23, 26, 36, 37, 52, and 107—

  2. where it is proposed to deal with the whole or the residue of the land comprised in any record of title issued under the Land Transfer Act 2017, it shall be a sufficient identification of the land to describe it as the whole or the residue of the land in the record of title:
    1. where it is proposed to deal with land previously dealt with and separately described in any Proclamation, declaration, notice, or Order in Council issued, or deemed to have been issued, under any of those sections, the description there used shall be deemed to be a sufficient identification of the land:
      1. where it is proposed to deal with the whole of the land comprised in a separate lot or other surveyed subdivision which is shown on a plan lodged with the Registrar-General of Land in accordance with the provisions of the Land Transfer Act 2017, or lodged in the office of the Chief Surveyor of the land district in which the land is situated, it shall be sufficient to identify the land by reference to the lot or subdivision on the plan.

        Compare
        • 1952 No 58 s 18
        Notes
        • Section 32(a): amended, on , by section 250 of the Land Transfer Act 2017 (2017 No 30).
        • Section 32(c): amended, on , by section 250 of the Land Transfer Act 2017 (2017 No 30).