Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) Subject to this
section, the Board shall issue a certificate of competency
to —
(a) a
person who has passed the prescribed examination and fulfilled all the
prescribed conditions; or
(b) a
person who holds a degree, diploma, certificate or licence granted in or
outside this State by some university, institute of technology, college or
other public educational institution that is recognised by the Board as
providing, together with such other qualifications (if any) by way of
examination or field service, or both, as may be prescribed, sufficient
evidence of the possession by the holder thereof of the requisite knowledge
and skill for the efficient practice of the profession of surveying.
(1a) A person is not
eligible to be issued with a certificate of competency under
subsection (1)(a) unless —
(a) he
has, before the coming into operation of section 6 of the Licensed
Surveyors Act Amendment Act 1976 1 , entered into articles of
apprenticeship or pupilage pursuant to the regulations; or
(b)
he —
(i)
has, after the coming into operation of section 6 of
the Licensed Surveyors Act Amendment Act 1976 1 , but on or before
the prescribed date, entered into articles of apprenticeship or pupilage
pursuant to the regulations; and
(ii)
satisfies the Board that he had, before the coming into
operation of section 6 of the Licensed Surveyors Act Amendment
Act 1976 1 , agreed, arranged or contracted with a licensed
surveyor to enter into articles of apprenticeship or pupilage pursuant to the
regulations.
(1b) In
subsection (1a) prescribed date means 31 March 1979 or such
later date as is prescribed.
(2) No person shall be
admitted to the final examinations prescribed for the purposes of
subsection (1)(a) unless he has attained the age of 18 years,
and has fulfilled all the conditions prescribed.
(3) The Board, instead
of requiring any person to pass an examination prescribed for the purposes of
subsection (1)(a) may accept in substitution for that examination a
certificate of examination in any subject or subjects granted by any
Australasian university or any university recognised by an Australasian
university, or by any public educational institution now or hereafter to be
established in Western Australia.
Such certificate of
examination shall have the like force and effect as if such examination had
been held by the Board.
[Section 9 amended by No. 107 of 1976
s. 6; No. 79 of 1996 s. 8.]