Western Australian Consolidated Acts

LAND ADMINISTRATION ACT 1997 - SECT 30

30 .         Authorised land officers

        (1)         The Minister may by notice published in the Gazette  —

            (a)         appoint a person employed in or by a public authority who is a licensed surveyor within the meaning of the Licensed Surveyors Act 1909 to be an authorised land officer and to perform such functions as are conferred or imposed on an authorised land officer by this Act or any other Act; and

            (b)         exercise in relation to such an appointment any power conferred by section 52(1) of the Interpretation Act 1984 .

        (2)         In this section —

        public authority means —

            (a)         a department of the Public Service; or

            (b)         a body, whether corporate or unincorporate, established for a public purpose under a written law.

        [Section 30 amended by No. 28 of 2006 s. 377.]