These Regulations prescribe rules relative to the conduct and practice of land surveyors authorized to act as such under the Land Surveyors Act. The rules concern, among other things, the form and content of a survey including the marking of boundaries, the duty to report to the Surveyor General on certain matters, details of survey plans and verification of boundaries. The Regulations also set out the form of the Register of Land Surveyors, regulate the authentication of survey plans, prescribe survey fees and the form of a complaint regarding the conduct of registered land surveyors.

This Act creates a general validation of acts of conveyances, for which no or no adequate compensation has been given to the conveyor, of real and personal property including leases, mortgages and any other instrument purporting to effect the transfer of any estate or interest in real or personal property from a company to any person. The Act consequentially extinguishes claims adverse to such conveyances. The provisions of this Act shall not affect bona fide purchase or invalidation of fraudulent conveyances by court.

This Act makes provision in relation with selected matters concerning real property such as the status of all corporeal tenements and hereditaments, the validity of certain acts such as feoffments, partitions, exchanges, leases and of interests in tenements and hereditaments and the status of a reversion expected on a lease on tenements to be surrendered or merged.