Western Australian Consolidated Acts

LICENSED SURVEYORS ACT 1909 - SECT 19

19 .         Surveyors to correct errors at their own expense

        (1)         The Surveyor General, and any other person appointed by the Governor to approve plans, may by notice in writing call on — 

            (a)         any licensed surveyor holding a practising certificate to correct at his own expense within a time specified in that notice any error made by him in an authorised survey; or

            (b)         any person who is or was a licensed surveyor ( the person at fault ) to pay the cost of correction by a licensed surveyor — 

                  (i)         holding a practising certificate; and

                  (ii)         instructed by the Surveyor General or the other person appointed by the Governor, as the case requires,

                of any error made by the person at fault in an authorised survey.

        (2)         In the event of any licensed surveyor refusing or omitting within the time specified in the notice to correct any such error or of any person who is or was a licensed surveyor omitting to pay the cost of the correction of any such error when called upon to do so, the Surveyor General or other authority may recover the cost of any such correction as a debt due to the Crown by action in a court of competent jurisdiction.

                Provided that any request for the correction of a survey shall be made within 12 years from the date of the lodgment of the plan of such survey with the Surveyor General or other authority.

        [Section 19 amended by No. 79 of 1996 s. 17.]