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evidence under this section is genuine, and that the person appearing to have signed or attested any such document had in fact authority to sign or attest the same, and that any such document was in fact made in accordance with the law under which it purports to have been made, unless the party objecting to the admission of the document proves the contrary. (3.) In this section— " Consul " includes a Consul-General, Consul, Vice-Consul, ActingConsul, Proconsul, and Consular Agent: " Minister " includes an Ambassador, Envoy, Minister, Charge d'AfTaires, and Secretary of Embassy or Legation. Surveys. 177. (1.) The Surveyor- General may, with the approval of the Governor in Council, make such regulations as he thinks necessary for insuring the accuracy of plans and surveys required under this Act, and may cancel and alter such regulations when and as necessary. (2.) No person shall be permitted to practice as a surveyor under this Act unless specially licensed for that purpose by the SurveyorGeneral. (3.) The Surveyor-General may, with the approval of the Governor, revoke, either absolutely or for such time as he thinks fit, the license of any surveyor licensed under this Act upon the ground of negligence, incompetence, or misconduct on the part of such surveyor. (4.) Any person whose license is so cancelled shall cease to be a surveyor licensed under this Act from and after the day when a notification of such cancellation is gazetted. 178. On any application to bring land under the provisions of this Act, or for a new certificate on the subdivision of or other dealing with the land comprised in any certificate or other instrument of title or any part thereof, or for the untransferred part of the land comprised in any such certificate or other instrument of title, the Registrar may require the applicant to deposit in the Land Registry Office of the district a plan of the land or subdivision or portion thereof, as the case may be, which plan shall be in accordance with the regulations for the time being in force in that behalf, and shall be verified by the statutory declaration of a licensed surveyor in such form as the regulations prescribe; and until such requisition is complied with the Registrar shall not be bound to proceed with the application. 179. (1.) The deposit of a plan of subdivision of any land shall not operate as a dedication for public purposes of roads shown on such plan, but a right of way over all such roads shall be appurtenant to every portion of the land in such subdivision, unless expressly excepted. (2.) Every instrument in which land is described by reference to a deposited plan shall take effect, according to the intent and meaning thereof, as if such plan was fully set out thereon. 180. (1.) Where a public road is taken or laid out over any land under this Act the Surveyor-General shall forward to the Registrar the particulars of such taking and of the date thereof, together with a sufficient plan of such road so far as the same affects land under this Act.

Surveyor-General may make regulations for surveys. 1908, No. 99, s. 179 Surveyors to be licensed.

Power to cancel surveyors' licenses

Plans to be deposited in certain cases, 1913, No. 17, s. 19

Deposit not to operate as dedication of roads. 1908, No. 99, s. 182

Land takon for roads to be defined on Register. lb., s. 183

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