• 12. (1) Where any uncertainty or dispute arises respecting the position of any well or boundary, the Chief may require a permittee, holder or lessee to file a plan of legal survey, approved by the Surveyor General, showing the well or boundary in respect of which the uncertainty or dispute has arisen.

• (2) A plan of legal survey shall show the position of such wells, boundaries and references as the Chief may specify.

13. The Surveyor General may, at the request of a permittee, lessee or holder, approve a plan of legal survey of the whole or part of a grid area, permit area, lease area, section, unit or the position of a well.

14. The ground position of a grid area, permit area, lease area, section, unit or well may, in the discretion of the Surveyor General, be surveyed by reference to

• (a) a monument shown on a plan of legal survey that has been approved by the Surveyor General;

• (b) a geodetic survey triangulation station;

• (c) a geodetic survey Shoran station;

• (d) a marker placed for the purpose of marking a territorial boundary;

• (e) a monument as defined in the Dominion Lands Surveys Act or the Canada Lands Surveys Act;

• (f) a physical feature, the geographical position of which has been determined by means of a Shoran-controlled photogrammetric process;

• (g) a marker, the geographic position of which has been determined by astronomic means; or

• (h) any other marker approved by the Surveyor General.

• 15. (1) Where a monument shown on a plan of legal survey is damaged, destroyed, moved or altered as a result of the operations of a licensee, permittee, holder or lessee, he shall report the matter to the Chief as soon as possible and shall

  • (a) pay to the Receiver General of Canada the cost of restoration or re-establishment of the monument; or

  • (b) with the consent of the Surveyor General, cause the monument to be restored or re-established at his own expense.

• (2) Every permittee, lessee or holder shall maintain and keep in good repair all monuments that are located on or mark the boundaries of his permit area or lease area as the case may be.

• (3) The restoration or re-establishment of a monument under subsection (1) shall be done by a Canada Lands Surveyor under the instruction of the Surveyor General.

• (4) A permittee, lessee or holder shall give the Surveyor General and the Chief at least three months notice of any planned movement of an offshore development structure to which legal survey monuments have been attached and such movement shall not constitute movement of the monuments under subsection (1).

• (5) A licensee, permittee, lessee or holder shall report the destruction, damage to, movement or alteration of any monument to the Chief forthwith after he has knowledge of it.