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Public Works Act 1981

Surveys and investigations

112: Offence to destroy survey marks

You could also call this:

“It's against the law to mess with or block survey markers”

You are not allowed to damage or move survey markers that have been put in place by people with special permission. These markers might be things like pegs, posts, poles, or temporary buildings. If you do damage or move them on purpose without a good reason, you are breaking the law.

You also can’t stop people who have permission from doing their survey work. If you try to get in their way while they’re working, you’re breaking the law too.

If you’re found guilty of damaging or moving survey markers, you might have to pay a fine. The court might also make you pay to fix or replace the things you damaged or moved.

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Part 7 Surveys and investigations

112Offence to destroy survey marks

  1. Every person who, without lawful authority or excuse, wilfully destroys, mutilates, defaces, takes away, or alters the position of any trigonometrical station, survey peg, mark, block, post, pole, or temporary building fixed or set up by any person under the authority of section 110 or section 111 commits an offence against this Act.

  2. Every person who wilfully obstructs any authorised person exercising any powers conferred on him by section 110 or section 111, or his assistants, in carrying out any such survey or investigation commits an offence against this Act.

  3. Where any person is convicted of an offence under subsection (1), the court may, in addition to imposing any penalty, order the person so convicted to pay the cost of repairing, restoring, or reinstating any trigonometrical station, survey peg, mark, block, post, pole, or temporary building so destroyed, mutilated, defaced, taken away, or altered as to position.

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