Rulings & Advisory Notes

New rulings in terms of the new Rules for Cadastral Survey 2010

These rulings will come into effect in conjunction with the new Rules for Cadastral Survey 2010, scheduled for May 2010.

• LINZR65300 – Ruling on official geodetic datum and projections - February 2010
  This ruling specifies the official geodetic datum and the official geodetic projections for use in cadastral surveys.
• LINZR65301 – Ruling on official vertical datums - February 2010
  This ruling specifies the official vertical datums for use in cadastral surveys.
• LINZR65302 – Ruling on cadastral survey network marks - February 2010
  This ruling specifies the survey marks that are suitable to be used as cadastral survey network marks.
• LINZR65303 – Ruling on vertical control marks - February 2010
  This ruling specifies the survey control marks that are suitable for the vertical control of cadastral surveys.
• LINZR65304 – Ruling providing exemption from use of NZGD2000 bearings - February 2010
  This ruling provides an exemption from Rule 4.1 (Horizontal datum – orientation), in specified circumstances, for a transition period of one year.
• LINZR65305 – Ruling providing exemption for representation of centreline easements - February 2010
  This ruling specifies the requirements for how an existing centreline easement is to be represented in a cadastral survey dataset where the width of the easement is unknown.
• LINZR65306 – Ruling providing exemption from definition by survey for certain parcels - February 2010
  This ruling specifies where Class A boundaries of new primary parcels less than 0.4 ha are exempt from the requirement to be defined by survey, ie can be compiled from existing approved primary parcel boundary data.
  

Current rulings

These rulings are in terms of the Surveyor-General's Rules for Cadastral Survey 2002/2 and will be superseded when the new Rules for Cadastral Survey 2010 come into effect.

• LINZR10300 Surveyor-General Ruling 2007/1 - Representation of movable marginal strips in cadastral survey datasets (see marginal strips) - June 2007
• Surveyor-General’s Ruling 2005/4 - Systematic Adjustment - May 2005
• Surveyor-General’s Ruling 2005/3 - Height Datum - May 2005
• Surveyor-General’s Ruling 2005/2 - Dispensation from Boundary Monumentation - March 2005
• Surveyor-General’s Ruling 2005/1 - Dispensation to use Parcel Diagrams - March 2005
• Surveyor-General’s Ruling 2004/1 - Bearings to be terms of Official Survey Projection and Geodetic Datum - November 2004

Advisory notes

• Determination of Mean High Water Springs (see tidal level information for surveyors) - July 2006

Previous rulings & advisory notes

For the Surveyor-General's rulings and advisory notes published between July 1997 and June 2004, see Torrenstalk.