Survey Co-Ordination Act 1958

Without limiting the generality of the provisions of this Act relating to surveys in or contiguous to proclaimed survey areas the Surveyor-General may by writing addressed to the proper officer of any department or public authority require in relation to any survey being carried out or proposed to be carried out by or on behalf of such department or authority—

that such survey shall be connected to an existing local or general survey or based upon a specified datum as to levels or otherwise;

that the surveyor carrying out such survey shall cause permanent marks of a prescribed kind to be established within or adjacent to the area surveyed as the Surveyor-General directs and also that such survey shall be connected with any permanent mark or marks already established;

that the original or a true copy of any plan made or obtained as part of such survey showing the date of the survey and certified by the surveyor who carries out the survey together with a separate sketch plan certified by such surveyor showing the position of any permanent marks established and the connexion (if any) of such survey with any local or general survey or with any permanent mark or marks already established shall be forwarded to the Surveyor-General immediately after the completion of such plans.

The proper officer of such department or public authority shall cause the survey to be carried out and plans prepared and forwarded in accordance with any such requisition of the Surveyor-General and any plans so forwarded shall be lodged in the Central Plan Office.

Every survey commenced by or on behalf of any department or public authority after the commencement of this Act (whether the subject of a requisition by the Surveyor-General under the foregoing provisions of this section or not) shall, unless required to be carried out in accordance with the Surveying Act 2004 or the regulations under that Act, be carried out in accordance with the standards of measurement and accuracy prescribed by regulations under this Act relating to surveys of the appropriate kind.