Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) In making any
authorised survey or for any purpose relating thereto, a licensed surveyor who
holds a practising certificate may, with his assistants, open any fence and
may enter upon any land.
(2) This
section shall not, however, exempt any licensed surveyor from liability
for any damage he may commit; but the employer of such licensed surveyor shall
be liable at the suit of the licensed surveyor to reimburse him if the act
occasioning such damage was necessary for the due making of the survey.
(3) Any person
obstructing a licensed surveyor or his assistants in the exercise of the
powers hereby conferred commits an offence and is liable to a penalty of
$2 000.
[Section 17 amended by No. 113 of 1965
s. 8; No. 79 of 1996 s. 15.]