New South Wales Consolidated Acts

SURVEYING ACT 2002 - SECT 21

21 Unregistered persons not to practise land surveying

(1) A person must not:

(a) carry out a land survey for fee or reward, or

(b) advertise that he or she is willing to carry out a land survey for fee or reward,

unless the person is a registered land surveyor.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.

(2) Subsection (1) does not prevent a survey drafter:

(a) from preparing a survey plan for a registered land surveyor, or

(b) from advertising that he or she is willing to prepare a survey plan for a registered land surveyor,

for fee or reward.

(3) Subsection (1) (a) does not apply to:

(a) any student of surveying, or any surveyor’s assistant, who carries out a land survey under the general supervision of a registered land surveyor, or

(b) any other person who carries out a land survey under the immediate supervision of a registered land surveyor.