Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated ActsIn this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:
"applicant" means a person who applies under section 23 for registration.
"approved" means approved by the Board.
"Board" means the Surveyors Board of the Northern Territory of Australia established by section 8.
"certificate of registration" means a certificate of registration issued under section 24(3).
"Chairperson" means the Chairperson of the Board.
"coordinated survey area" means an area of land in the Territory declared under section 46A to be a coordinated survey area.
"Department" means the Department of the Public Service of the Territory primarily responsible to the Minister for the administration of this Act.
"Deputy Chairperson" means the Deputy Chairperson of the Board appointed under section 12(2).
"graduate surveyor" means a person who possesses the approved educational qualifications for registration as a licensed surveyor but has not satisfied the Board that he or she has the additional qualifications for registration referred to in section 25(1)(a).
"Institution" means the Institution of Surveyors, Australia, Northern Territory Division.
"land" includes land covered by water.
"licensed surveyor" means:
(a) a person whose name was immediately before the commencement of this Act entered in the Register kept under the repealed Act; or
(b) a person whose name is, for the time being, entered in the Register.
"member" means a member of the Board appointed under section 9(2) and includes a person appointed to act as a member.
"reciprocating board" means the surveyors board or other competent authority of a reciprocating State.
"reciprocating State" means a part of the Commonwealth or another country with the surveyors board or other competent authority of which the Board has entered into a reciprocal arrangement under section 27.
"Register" means the Register of Licensed Surveyors kept under section 22.
"repealed Act" means the Ordinances repealed by section 3, as in force immediately before the commencement of this Act.
"survey" means a measurement or delimitation of land boundaries authorized or required:
(a) under an Act dealing with the alienation, leasing or occupation of Crown land or land of the Crown, or affecting titles to land;
(b) by the Crown or the proprietor, lessee or mortgagee of the land or a prospective proprietor, lessee or mortgagee; or
(c) in connection with the dedication, reservation, resumption or disposal of land for any purpose under the authority of an Act,
and includes all matters incidental to or consequent upon such measurement or delimitation.
"survey mark" includes a beacon, concrete block, metal pin or plaque, peg, post, stone cairn or any other approved marker placed on land for the purposes of a survey or indicating a boundary.
"Surveyor-General" means the person appointed under section 5, and includes a person appointed under section 7 to act as the Surveyor-General while so acting.
"Tribunal" means the Licensed Surveyors Appeal Tribunal established by section 40.