Survey Co-ordination Act 1944

No survey shall, after the commencement of this Act, be commenced by or on behalf of any public authority unless a notice in the prescribed form of intention to commence such survey has been delivered or forwarded to, and received by, the Surveyor-General at least five days before the survey is commenced: Provided that where it is impracticable by reason of the urgency of any particular survey to give the notice required by this section notice of intention to commence, or as the case may require, of having commenced, the survey shall be given as early as is practicable in the circumstances, and shall be accompanied by a certificate of the proper officer of the public authority concerned setting out the reasons for the failure to give the prescribed notice.