Section 19: Offences

19. Offences (1) Any person who— (a) knowingly obstructs or hinders a land surveyor, or a person assisting a land surveyor, in— (i) the performance of the land surveyor's functions in relation to a survey; (ii) the ascertaining or marking out of a boundary or cadastral survey line; or (iii) the fixing, placing, restoring, repairing, or setting up of a survey mark; (b) knowingly or recklessly takes, destroys, or alters the position of, or markings on, a survey mark that has been placed or set up— (i) for the control of cadastral surveys; or (ii) for the purposes of any cadastral survey; (c) places in position, in relation to any plot of land, a peg or mark— (i) that is not a survey mark properly placed; and (ii) with the intention of causing any person to believe that it is a survey mark placed in that position for the purposes of a cadastral survey; (d) without lawful authority, removes, defaces, destroys or tampers with a notice posted under section 9 (3) (c); [Issue 7] C1(1) – 12 Revised Laws of Mauritius (e) removes or displaces any boundary stone or survey mark, without the knowledge and consent of the interested person, or without lawful authority; or (f) signs a memorandum of survey, survey report or plan without having been on the plot of land during the measurement of the boundary lines, shall commit an offence. (2) Any person who contravenes this Act shall commit an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding 50,000 rupees and to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months. (3) The Court before which a person is convicted of an offence under this section may, in addition, order the offender to pay the costs of repairing, replacing, or restoring to its proper position, or restoring the markings on, the survey mark concerned, including any other cadastral survey costs. (S. 19 came into operation on 1 January 2012.)