Overview

In 2018, the Land and Survey Department was created due to a merger between the Land Registry and the Lands & Survey Department. Both were established under the Registered Land Ordinance, 1970 (CAP.229), and the Land Surveyors’ Ordinance, (CAP.215) respectively. Both departments originated and continue to fall under the portfolio of the Ministry of Natural Resources, Labour and Immigration.

The Land and Survey Department is the legal registry and repository for all land registration information, and geographic data including the Registry Maps (the Cadastral Data and Index Sheets). The Department is regulated primarily by the Registered Land Act and Land Surveyors’ Ordinance.

Core Services

• Certified copies
• Geodetic Control Maintenance
• Boundary Investigations
• Land Matters

a) Land Registration
b) Partitions & Prescriptions
c) Removal of cautions/restrictions

• Registration Report
• Searches

Vision

Making land transactions easier for all.

Mission

To manage mapping and registry services with modern efficiency, transparency and security through innovation and expertise by providing products and services to satisfy our stakeholders.

Values

1) Responding to inquiries, receive and process all documents and information relating to land, mapping and survey transactions within the jurisdiction of the British Virgin Islands.

2) Conduct surveys as instructed by the Ministry of Natural Resources, Labour and Immigration and maintain and update the Cadastral Index Sheets.

3) Accumulating and securing all registered land, mapping and survey transactions to ensure that patrons who access our repository can make sound property decisions using the information stored.

4) Educating our staff and patrons of the Land & Survey Department to enhance a clearer understanding of the land registration, mapping and surveying procedures and best practices.

5) Offering courteous and professional services to compliment a comfortable working environment.

6) Being responsive whether by meeting your property transaction needs or a simple acknowledgement.

Our Major Responsibilities Are:

• To maintain and enhance the National Geodetic Framework, that is, the survey control monuments located throughout the islands.    These monuments are the control to which all surveys in the Territory are referenced;

• To check and authenticate all cadastral plans prepared as a result of surveys executed by Government and Private Practice Licensed Surveyors;

• To undertake surveys for Government as instructed by the Ministry of Natural Resources, Labour and Immigration, Land Registry Department and other Government Ministries & Departments;

• To assist the Chief Registrar of Lands in the investigation and resolution of disputed boundaries;

• To maintain and update the Cadastral Index Sheets on instructions and direction of the Chief Registrar of Lands;

• To be the consultant within the Territory in respect to surveying and mapping concerns or questions;