Section 18: Interference with property rights of owners
consolidated text (as at 2013, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
18. Interference with property rights of owners
(1) Where, in the course of a survey, a land surveyor is unable to carry
out an operation without cutting down a standing crop, a tree or brushwood
growing on a plot of land and he is unable to obtain the consent of the
owner of the plot of land for that purpose, he may apply to the Magistrate of
the district in which the plot of land is situated for leave to cut the crop, tree
or brushwood, as the case may be.
(2) On an application made under subsection (1), the Magistrate may,
after hearing the owner of the plot of land—
(a) authorise the land surveyor to cut down the standing crop, tree
or brushwood, as the case may be; and
(b) fix the amount of compensation, if any, payable to the owner of
the plot of land.
(S. 18 came into operation on 1 July 2013.)