Surveys for establishment of standard traverses in certain areas and proclamation of survey areas
12 Surveys for establishment of standard traverses in certain areas and proclamation of survey areas
S. 12(1) amended by Nos 56/1987 s. 5(a)–(d), 47/2004 s. 71(Sch. item 5.3).
The Surveyor-General, after consultation with the Surveyors Registration Board and with representatives of such departments as may be concerned and of such public authorities as he thinks proper, may cause to be carried out in an area such survey or surveys as he considers necessary for establishing a standard traverse for such area for the convenient connexion of local or general surveys with the Australian Map Grid, and may cause to be established on or adjacent to the standard traverse so established such permanent marks of any prescribed kind as he considers proper.
Upon a report of the Surveyor-General in writing to the effect—
that the foregoing provisions of this section have been carried out to his satisfaction with respect to any area within Victoria and a standard traverse established for such area; or
that there are in existence in any area within Victoria sufficient permanent marks for the establishment of a local traverse for such area—
the Governor in Council by proclamation published in the Government Gazette may proclaim such area to be a "proclaimed survey area" for the purposes of this Act.
After the publication of any such proclamation every survey for any purpose under any Act of any area which is wholly or partly within or contiguous to the proclaimed survey area to which the proclamation relates whether carried out by or on behalf of any department or public authority or by any surveyor privately employed shall be connected to the standard traverse or local traverse (as the case may be) for such proclaimed survey area either—
directly; or
where the Surveyor-General or some person duly authorized in writing in that behalf by the Surveyor-General so authorizes in writing—indirectly by way of connexion with an existing survey or permanent mark already connected or proposed to be connected to such standard or local traverse—
and no plan of any such survey shall be lodged with or accepted or otherwise used by any department or public authority or be of any validity whatever for any purpose under any Act unless it shows such connexion as aforesaid certified by the surveyor who carries out the survey or is accompanied by a sketch plan showing such connexion so certified.
It shall be the duty of the Surveyor-General when so requested to advise the surveyor of any department or public authority or any licensed surveyor as to how proposed surveys of any such area as aforesaid may be connected with the standard or local traverse and to authorize any such indirect connexion as aforesaid as appears to him to be more convenient or economical than a direct connexion with such traverse, and any survey carried out or plan prepared in accordance with any such written authority of the Surveyor-General shall, where such authority is attached to the plan, be deemed for all purposes a sufficient compliance with the requirements of this section.
S. 12(5) amended by No. 9019 s. 2(1)(Sch. item 219).
A record of the plan or plans of every standard or local traverse established pursuant to this section shall be entered in the Central Plan Register and a copy of every plan of a standard traverse certified by the surveyor who carried out the survey and by the Surveyor-General shall be forwarded by the Surveyor-General to the Commonwealth survey authority immediately upon the completion thereof.
No. 4732 s. 13.
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