Licensed Surveyors Act 1909

Subject to this section, the Board shall issue a certificate of competency to —

a person who has passed the prescribed examination and fulfilled all the prescribed conditions; or

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.

A person is not eligible to be issued with a certificate of competency under subsection (1)(a) unless —

he has, before the coming into operation of section 6 of the Licensed Surveyors Act Amendment Act 1976, entered into articles of apprenticeship or pupilage pursuant to the regulations; or

he —

has, after the coming into operation of section 6 of the Licensed Surveyors Act Amendment Act 1976, but on or before the prescribed date, entered into articles of apprenticeship or pupilage pursuant to the regulations; and

satisfies the Board that he had, before the coming into operation of section 6 of the Licensed Surveyors Act Amendment Act 1976, agreed, arranged or contracted with a licensed surveyor to enter into articles of apprenticeship or pupilage pursuant to the regulations.

In subsection (1a) prescribed date means 31 March 1979 or such later date as is prescribed.

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.

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.