New South Wales Consolidated Acts

SURVEYING ACT 2002 - SECT 3A

3A Meaning of “spatial information”

(1) For the purposes of this Act, "spatial information" is any information about a location in space and time including, but not limited to, information about any one or more of the following:

(a) the natural resources at the location,

(b) the environment and climate at the location,

(c) land ownership and other ownership rights at the location,

(d) the use of land at the location,

(e) any infrastructure at the location,

(f) the demography of the location.

(2) A location to which spatial information relates may be:

(a) a point or a two or three dimensional area, and

(b) a location that is:

(i) above the Earth’s surface, or

(ii) below the Earth’s surface, or

(iii) on the Earth’s surface, or

(iv) any combination of the above.