The following amendments and addenda must be introduced to the Federal Law No. 209-FZ: 1) In the item 2 of the Article 3 must be supplemented with the wording “topographic monitoring”; paragraph 11 of the same article must be supplemented with the wording “provision with geodetic, cartographic, topographic and hydrographical materials regarding regional and state boundaries”; paragraph 15 of the same article acquires a new wording “setting, normalization, regulation of usage, registration, recording and conservation of the names of geographic objects’’.

La presente Ley aprueba el texto refundido del catastro inmobiliario, que es un registro administrativo dependiente del Ministerio de Hacienda en el que se describen los bienes inmuebles rústicos, urbanos y de características especiales tal y como se definen en esta Ley.

The present Law determines the legal basis for carrying out geodetic and cartographic activity and is aimed at meeting the demand of legal and physical persons in geodetic and cartographic products. Geodetic and cartographic activity is productive, technical and scientific activity related to the execution of geodetic and cartographic work and creation of geodetic and cartographic products (art. 1). Objects of geodetic and cartographic activity are: 1) land and surface water and geographic objects situated thereon; 2) outer space, including natural and artificial celestial objects (art.

This Chapter provides for the management and other matters of Government land. It consists of 8 Articles divided into sections. Article 1 contains general provisions. The Department of Land Management shall have authority of all government real property for purposes of this Chapter. The Director of Land Management may, when necessary, reserve or set aside government real property not reserved by law for specific public use for the future use of any other department or agency of the government pursuant to section 5.

The purpose of the present Law is to establish the legal basis for keeping state land cadastre, use of cadastre data for economic development, ensuring the right to the plots of land, rational use, rehabilitation and protection of land. State land cadastre is a basic component of the Common system of state cadastres and represents the system of data and documentation regarding natural, economic, legal characteristics of land, categories, qualitative aspect and value, location and size of the plots of land, distribution among the owners, leaseholders and landlords thereof.

The present Law establishes the legal basis for geodetic and cartographic activity. The objects of geodetic and cartographic activity are the national territory and outer space (art. 3). Geodetic and cartographic activity of governmental importance shall include: 1) creation, renewal and publication of topographic maps and plans; 2) distant zoning of the Earth; 3) demarcation and inspection of state boundaries (art. 6). Geodetic and cartographic activity shall be subject to licensing in conformity with the modalities established by Law (art. 13). The Law consists of 16 Articles.

This Act applies only to and in relation to surveys of the boundaries of, or for the purpose of the establishment, re-establishment or determination of titles to, land, and other surveys authorized by the Surveyor General (sect. 3). The Head of the Division of Surveys of the Department responsible for land matters is the Surveyor General, and is charged with the administration of this Act. The Papua and New Guinea Surveyors Board is established under section 6.

This Act provides for the control and coordination of land surveying and the carrying out of public surveys.“Survey” is defined in section 2. There shall be a Central Plan Office in the Office of the Surveyor General (sect. 3). A liaison officer shall be appointed in each public office under section 4. The Surveyor General may connect proposed surveys to existing surveys pursuant to section 6. For the purposes of this Act, there shall be established and maintained in the Central Plan Office a register, to be called the Central Plan Register (sect. 8).

These Regulations implement provisions of the Survey Co-ordination Act 1967. The Central Plan Register shall be in Form 1. A Liaison officer to keep registers as specified in regulation 3. A list or supplementary list compiled by the liaison officer under Section 4 or 7 of the Act forwarded to the Surveyor General in accordance with the provisions of the Act shall be endorsed with a certificate in Form 3. A notice under Section 5(1) of the Act shall be in Form 4.

These Regulations implement provisions of the Survey Act 1969. They concern fees for purposes of the Act, articles of cadetship in land surveying, the Register of Articled Cadets, training of surveyors, application for registration as certified measurer, examination, certificate of competency for certified measurers, plans of survey to be submitted to registry, etc.

Implements: Survey Act 1969. (2006)

The present Regulation of the Minister of Environment, which is composed of six paragraphs, lays down the method to be followed by governors of provinces to establish urban areas. A range of a sewage system finished with a sewage treatment plant has to be taken into consideration. The border should be determined along external borders of building plots belonging to the given sewage network.

Implements: Water Law. (2005-06-03)

The Methodical Instructions establish the organizational basics and requirements for the organization and carrying out the state expertise of land survey documentation and registration in the aforesaid sphere. All land survey documentation regarding also land valuation, data of the state land cadastre, elaborated at the national, regional and local levels by the subjects of entrepreneurial activity shall be subject to the state expertise.