Land Survey (Amendment) Act, 2021

Land Survey (Amendment)
An Act to amend the Land Survey Act.
[ 20th May, 2021
ENACTED by the Parliament of Zambia.
1. This Act may be cited as the Land Survey (Amendment)
Act, 2021, and shall be read as one with the Land Survey Act, in
this Act referred to as the principal Act.
2. Section 2 of the principal Act is amended by the insertion
of the follwoing new definitions in the appropriate places in
alphabetical order:
“document” has the meaning assigned to the word in the
Lands and Deeds Registry Act;
“digital signature” has the meaning assigned to the words in
the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, 2021;
“electronic signature” has the meaning assigned to the words
in the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act,
2021.
3. The principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following
new sections immediately after section 31:
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Enactment
Short title
Insertion of
Section 31A
and 31B
Cap. 188
Amendment
of Section 2
Cap. 185
Act No. 4 of
2021
Act No. 4 of
2021
GOVERNMENT OF ZAMBIA
ACT
No. 40 of 2021
Date of Assent: 19th May, 2021
Single copies of this Act may be obtained from the Government Printer,
P.O. Box 30136, 10101 Lusaka, Price K4.00 each.

Date of Assent: 19th May, 2021
Single copies of this Act may be obtained from the Government Printer,
P.O. Box 30136, 10101 Lusaka, Price K4.00 each.

31A. A diagram, general plan and survey record may be
issued and maintained in electronic form as prescribed.
31B. (1) A document authorised or required to be filed
with, or delivered to, the Surveyor-General in accordance with
this Act, may be filed or delivered by means of a device or
facility that records or stores information electronically as
prescribed.
(2) A document required to be signed, issued or kept by
the Surveyor-General may be signed, issued or kept in
electronic form.
(3) A signature for the purpose of this Act includes an
electronic or digital signature.
(4) A document delivered to the Surveyor-General,
which appears to the Surveyor-General to be incomplete
may be corrected electronically, by the Surveyor-General
or the Land surveyor who delivered the document.
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Maintenance
of diagram,
general plan
and survey
record
inelectronic
form
Filing of
document to
Survey-
General