Ordination of experts according to FBL 4:34– how common is it and in what situationsdoes it occur?

Abstract: The ability to ordain experts, to assist surveyors in a specific issue, during the cadastral procedure has been regulated in the Swedish law since 1928. Due to this ordination of experts, the surveyors are to guarantee an adequate investigation, even in the parts of the procedure where the authority lacks knowledge. The role of experts in cadastral procedures has not previously been examined. The objective of this master thesis is to examine how often experts are ordinated, what type of experts that is needed within the investigations of cadastral procedures and how the ordination has been made. Cadastral documents have been investigated in order to be able to answer these questions and a couple of surveyors were also interviewed. All cadastral procedures, which where registered in 2013, have been part of the study. The cadastral documents have been examined for each county and a total of 16,279 documents were studied. Among these, 82 cadastral procedures in which an expert was ordinated, was found. This concludes that the ordination of experts within cadastral procedures in Sweden is a rare phenomenon. The authority itself therefore possesses a great skill. The conducted study of the 82 cadastral documents, show that the majority of the ordinated experts possessed skills within the field of valuation. How they were ordinated differs slightly within the study. It might therefore be of interest to discuss this issue within the authority to develop a more uniform approach. The past years, a number of experts within valuation have gathered within the Swedish surveying organization. The idea of this group is to implement their work as valuers and to help their colleagues with difficult valuations, in cases where they otherwise might have ordained an external expert. The general consensus, since this group was established, is that the ordination of experts, within cadastral procedures, has declined.