Section 4: Digital cadastral database

4. Digital cadastral database (1) (a) The digital cadastral database existing, and kept at the Ministry, at the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to have been set up under this Act and shall continue to be kept and maintained in electronic form. (b) The DCDB shall, in respect of every land parcel, consist of the entries specified in subsection (2). (2) The entries referred to in subsection (1) (b) shall include— (a) a digital graphic representation of the land parcel; (b) the relationship of all points and polygons in the cadastral framework with the geodetic datum of the Island of Mauritius; (c) the relationship of every land parcel with any other adjoining land parcel and any abutting road; (d) the lot number, if any, the extent of the land parcel, its PIN, plan or diagram of cadastral survey, street address and particulars of transcription; (e) a brief description of any building on the land parcel, its PIN, the area of the building in square metres, its utilisation, the individual descriptors, attributes and other related material; (f) an indication as to whether a building on the land parcel is for residential, commercial, industrial or other purposes; (g) the full name of the owner; (h) the market value of the land parcel in terms of the value of the land, the buildings, if any, and the value of leasehold rights in State lands; (i) zoning of the land parcel for planning purposes; (j) the city, town and village boundaries set out in the First, Second and Third Schedules, respectively, to the Local Government Act, [Issue 7] C1(1) – 4 Revised Laws of Mauritius the electoral boundaries of constituencies approved by the Assembly under section 39 of the Constitution and any other administrative boundaries, of the land parcel; (k) such other information as the Permanent Secretary may require. (3) The DCDB shall be upgraded to a co-ordinated cadastre by the recording of accurate surveys and co-ordinated cadastral surveys. (4) The recording in the DCDB of information in respect of a land parcel shall not create or affect any interest in the land. (5) Where the information in the DCDB is inconsistent with information recorded or noted in the land registry, the information recorded or noted in the land registry shall prevail to the extent of the inconsistency. (6) Any information recorded in a deed of transfer of a land parcel regarding the co-ordinates of land boundaries shall be consistent with the DCDB. (7) Where the DCDB indicates that the boundaries of a land parcel are not fixed boundaries, the land parcel map shall be taken to be the general boundaries of that land parcel. (8) Where any uncertainty or dispute exists as to the alignment of any boundary line, a note to that effect shall be inserted in the DCDB. (9) For the purpose of this section, the DCDB shall be geo-referenced in terms of the prescribed geodetic datum of Mauritius which is based on the WGS 84 reference system of the World Geodetic System 1984. [S. 4 amended by s. 165 (4) of Act 36 of 2011 w.e.f. 15 December 2011.] (S. 4 not in operation.)