Licensed Land Surveyors Act · 1984 Revised Edition
Section 11
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
The Surveyor General or any Government sur-veyor so authorised by him may at any time undertake such field and office checks on the title survey work of a licensed land surveyor as he thinks fit.
Surveyor General
"Surveyor General" means the officer for the time being performing the duties of the head of the Sur-vey Department;
The Surveyor General or other person autho-rised by him to approve survey plans, may by notice in writing instruct any licensed land surveyor to correct at his own expense within a time specified in such notice any error made by him:
licensed land surveyor
"licensed land surveyor" means a person whose name has been placed upon the Register and to whom a licence to practice has been issued by the Board;
Provided that such notice shall be sent not more than 12
months after the date on which the relevant survey plan was deposited with the Survey Department as provided in section 9.
Survey plan
"Survey plan" means a plan signed by a licensed land surveyor recording the work carried out by 3 RL.R.O.J/1984 Appointment of Board for the purposes of this Act Licensed Land Surveyors him on a title survey, or a plan signed by an officer authorised by the Surveyor General to do so and recording the work of a Government surveyor;
In the event of such licensed land surveyor refus-ing or neglecting within the time specified to correct such error it shall be lawful for the Surveyor General to under-take such correction and to recover the whole cost of such correction from the licensed land surveyor concerned.
( 4) If such licensed land surveyor refuses or neglects to refund the cost of the correction survey referred to in subsection (3) within 14 days of the receipt of the statement of cost the Surveyor General may report the facts to the
Board for Disciplinary action and after due enquiry the
Board may order such licensed land surveyor to pay the cost of correction of his work or to pay his client such sum by way of compensation as the Board thinks fit; and if such licensed land surveyor refuses or neglects to comply with such order within one month of the date of such decision the
Board may, subject to the provisions of section 13, suspend 9
Approval of title surve.ys
Correction of errors
10
Disciplinary powers of the
Board
Appeal to
His Majesty in Council
Illegal practice
Licensed Land Surveyors such licensed land surveyor from practice as a licensed land surveyor until the cost of such correction survey has been paid, or for a period not exceeding 3 years.
Terms defined in s 2
licensed land surveyor
Defined · s 2"licensed land surveyor" means a person whose name has been placed upon the Register and to whom a licence to practice has been issued by the Board;
Survey plan
Defined · s 2"Survey plan" means a plan signed by a licensed land surveyor recording the work carried out by 3 RL.R.O.J/1984 Appointment of Board for the purposes of this Act Licensed Land Surveyors him on a title survey, or a plan signed by an officer authorised by the Surveyor General to do so and recording the work of a Government surveyor;
Surveyor General
Defined · s 2"Surveyor General" means the officer for the time being performing the duties of the head of the Sur-vey Department;
title survey
Defined · s 2"title survey" means any survey which by any writ-ten law is required for the purpose of or in connec-tion with the registration of any title to land or of assurance or instrument affecting or purporting to affect title to land and includes in connection here-with (a) the delimitation of the boundaries of any land whether privately owned or not; (b) the emplacement, replacement and removal of boundary marks; (c) surveys required for the correct inter-relation of boundaries or of boundary marks; (d) the marking and recording of all measure-ments and calculations relevant thereto and the drawing and reproduction of plans therefrom. "'