South Australian Consolidated Acts

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ACT 1991 - SECT 12

12—Certain places not to be named without Surveyor-General's approval

        (1)         On application, the Surveyor-General may, by instrument in writing, approve a name to be given to—

            (a)         a hospital, school, college or educational institution that is established after the commencement of this Act;

            (b)         an area of land that is divided for residential, industrial or commercial purposes after the commencement of this Act;

            (c)         any other place or type of place that the Surveyor-General specifies by notice published in the Gazette.

        (2)         In this section—

"divided" means subdivided and re-subdivided and includes the alteration of the boundaries of allotments of land.