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National Exams — May 2017 — 04-Geom-A6 Cadastral Studies. Three hours; closed book, no calculator permitted. Format: five questions of equal value (25% each); the paper directs that FOUR (4) questions constitute a complete exam paper — five are printed but the candidate must pick four, and only the first four as they appear in the answer book are marked. Most answers are wanted in essay format, and clarity and organization are expressly marked. To make this a complete study reference, all five questions are solved in full below (a candidate would answer any four). Legal and land-registration content is framed in the Canadian context: the common-law standard of care; provincial land-title (Torrens) and registry systems; Ontario's Surveyors Act / Surveys Act and coordinated-cadastre practice; and Canadian cadastral institutions and case law.
Reference texts: Survey Law in Canada (Canadian Council of Land Surveyors / Carswell, 1989); R. Brown, W. Robillard, D. Wilson et al., Brown's Boundary Control and Legal Principles (7th ed., Wiley, 2017); Association of Ontario Land Surveyors (AOLS), Standards and Guidelines; Ontario's Surveyors Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. S.29 and Surveys Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. S.30 with O. Reg. 216/10; the Ontario Land Titles Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. L.5, and Registry Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. R.20; P. F. Dale, Cadastral Surveys within the Commonwealth (HMSO, 1976); G. Larsson, Land Registration and Cadastral Systems (Longman Scientific & Technical, 1991); FIG, Statement on the Cadastre (1995) and ISO 19152 Land Administration Domain Model (LADM); NRCan NAD83(CSRS) / coordinated-cadastre materials.
