Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) The Board may,
with the approval of the Governor, make regulations prescribing all matters
that are required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed, or are necessary
or convenient to be prescribed for giving effect to the purposes of this Act,
and, in particular —
(a)
regulating the meetings and proceedings of the Board and the conduct of the
business thereof; the election of a member to perform the duties of the
chairman and act as deputy chairman during the illness or absence of the
chairman;
(b)
prescribing the duties of the secretary and other officers of the Board;
(c)
regulating the manner of keeping the register, and the particulars to be
entered therein;
(d)
prescribing forms to be used for the purposes of this Act;
(e)
determining the evidence to be produced and conditions to be fulfilled by any
person applying for the issue of a licence or the issue or renewal of a
practising certificate under this Act;
(f)
prescribing the course of study, professional practice, conditions of service,
and training and examination of persons desirous of obtaining certificates of
competency entitling them to apply for the issue to them of licences;
(g)
regulating the issue of certificates of competency and licences and the issue
and renewal of practising certificates;
(h)
prescribing what certificates of examination will be recognised by the Board
as a substitute for the examinations of the Board;
(i)
prescribing what certificates, diplomas, memberships,
degrees, licences, letters testimonial, or other titles, status, or documents,
will be recognised by the Board as qualifying persons holding them or any of
them for the issue to them of licences, whether immediately or after further
examination or field service, or both;
(ia)
enabling the Board to issue certificates of recognition to retired surveyors,
who have given long service as surveyors, in recognition of the contributions
made by those surveyors to the profession of surveying;
(j)
prescribing a scale of fees to be charged and paid in respect, of any
application, examination, certificate, licence, inspection, or other
proceeding, act or thing provided or required under this Act; prescribing the
fees payable to examiners; and to members of the Board for attendance at
meetings;
(k)
requiring and regulating the registration in the office of the secretary of
all contracts and articles of apprenticeship or pupilage under which
apprentices or pupils in surveying are serving;
[(l) deleted]
(m) for
the direction and guidance of licensed surveyors in carrying out the
provisions of the Acts relating to authorised surveys.
(2) Regulations made
under subsection (1) may create offences and provide in respect of each
such offence a penalty not exceeding $1 000.
(3) A certificate
issued under regulations referred to in subsection (1)(ia) does not
entitle its holder to practise as a surveyor or to make authorised surveys.
(4) Nothing in
regulations referred to in subsection (1)(ia) or in subsection (3)
prevents the holder of a certificate issued under those regulations who has
ceased to be a licensed surveyor from again becoming a licensed surveyor in
accordance with this Act.
(5) Regulations made
under subsection (1) and prescribing a period or periods for the purposes
of the definition of “standard period” in section 3(1) may
confer on the Board power, subject to that definition, to determine the length
of the period or periods.
[Section 26 amended by No. 113 of 1965
s. 8; No. 107 of 1976 s. 9; No. 79 of 1996 s. 25; No.
24 of 2000 s. 21(2); No. 55 of 2004 s. 657.]