Singapore legislation
Section 12
Section 12
Powers of entry for survey purposes
(1)
For the purposes of conducting any cadastral survey or installing any boundary mark or survey control mark under this Act or any other written law, the Chief Surveyor may authorise, either generally or specially and subject to any conditions that the Chief Surveyor may impose, any registered surveyor who has in force a practising certificate or any assistant employed by the registered surveyor —
to enter and re-enter any land, seabed, foreshore or building at any reasonable time during the hours of daylight, with such workmen, aircraft, boats, vehicles, appliances, machinery and equipment as may be reasonably necessary to conduct the survey or to install the boundary mark or survey control mark;
to emplace any boundary mark or survey control mark in or upon such lands and premises, and to dig up any ground for the purpose of emplacing the boundary mark or survey control mark; and
to cut down and remove any tree or other growth which may obstruct any survey line or any boundary.
(2)
Before exercising any of the powers conferred by subsection (1) in respect of any land that is not a road, the person doing so must, where practicable, give reasonable notice to the occupier of the land of the intention to exercise those powers.
(3)
Any person exercising any power under subsection (1) must produce evidence of the person’s identity and authority to exercise those powers —
if practicable, on first entering the land or premises; and
whenever subsequently reasonably requested to do so.
(4)
Nothing in this section exempts any registered surveyor or the registered surveyor’s assistant or workman from liability for any damage caused in the exercise of the powers conferred by subsection (1).[11A