Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) In this Act,
unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms have the meanings
set against them respectively: —
authorised survey — A survey of land
authorised or required —
(a)
under any Act dealing with the alienation, leasing or occupation of Crown
lands, or under the Transfer of Land Act 1893 , or any other Act
affecting titles to land; or
(b) by
the proprietor, lessee or mortgagee under any Act affecting titles to land,
including —
(c) a
survey of land which re-establishes the boundaries previously established by a
survey of land so authorised or required, if that
re-establishment —
(i)
involves the placement, replacement or relocation of any
survey mark; or
(ii)
is followed by advice for the purpose of enabling the
boundaries of the land in question to be located,
or both so involves
and is so followed; and
(d) the
lodgment of a plan with a Government department or the Western Australian Land
Information Authority established by the Land Information Authority Act 2006
section 5 for acceptance or adoption —
(i)
as a plan of an authorised survey, if that plan is
certified or otherwise held out as having been created from the result of an
authorised survey, or as describing the boundaries of land within or the
subject of that plan, which land is to be the subject of an authorised survey
before that plan is approved under section 18; or
(ii)
as a compiled plan, if that plan is certified or
otherwise held out as having been created from one or more authorised surveys
recorded on plans approved under section 18, from field records that have
been lodged, or from both.
Board — The Land Surveyors Licensing
Board constituted under this Act.
Institute — The Institution of
Surveyors, Australia, Western Australia Division Inc.
licence — A licence issued under this
Act.
licensed surveyor — A surveyor licensed
under this Act.
practising certificate — A practising
certificate issued under section 11A.
prescribed — Prescribed by this Act or
the regulations made thereunder.
reciprocating State — Any State,
colony, or dominion within Her Majesty’s dominions with which reciprocal
arrangements have been made by the Board for the recognition of the status of
surveyors.
register — The register of licensed
surveyors directed by this Act to be kept.
secretary — The secretary to the Board.
standard period , in relation to a practising
certificate, means such period or periods, each not exceeding 3 years and
expiring at the end of a calendar year, as is or are prescribed.
survey mark — A cairn, beacon,
structure, post, peg, block, plug, tube, pipe, spike, pole or other mark of
whatsoever material composed which is or has been placed, sunk or set up in
such manner and by such persons as are prescribed.
Surveyor General — The professional
officer charged with the general control of surveys under the department
principally assisting the Minister in the administration of this Act.
this Act — This Act and any regulations
made thereunder.
(2) A reference in
this Act to practising as a licensed surveyor includes a reference to
certifying plans, diagrams, maps and other documents which are required under
this Act or any other written law to be certified by licensed surveyors.
[Section 3 amended by No. 16 of 1940
s. 2; No. 107 of 1976 s. 3; No. 79 of 1996 s. 5;
No. 60 of 2006 s. 143(2).]