Terms used
3 Terms used
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 —
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
by the proprietor, lessee or mortgagee under any Act affecting titles to land,
including —
a survey of land which re‑establishes the boundaries previously established by a survey of land so authorised or required, if that re‑establishment —
involves the placement, replacement or relocation of any survey mark; or
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
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 —
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
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.
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: 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).]
This provision refers to the regulations (the regulations
, any regulations
). Made under this Act:
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