Licensed Land Surveyors Act · 1984 Revised Edition
Section 8
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Subject to the provisions of this Act, a licensed land surveyor whose name appears on the Register and who has paid the annual licence fee in respect of the current year shall be entitled to practise his profession as a land surveyor and shall be authorised to undertake title surveys.
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;
Nothing in this Act shall affect the right of the
Surveyor General to employ Government surveyors, whether licensed land surveyors or not, on any type of title survey whatsoever.
Surveyor General
"Surveyor General" means the officer for the time being performing the duties of the head of the Sur-vey Department;
Nothing in this Act shall affect the right of any person, not being a licensed land surveyor to undertake surveys other than title surveys.
Licence to practice 7
Powers of a licensed land surveyor
8
Deposit of survey plans
Licensed Land Surveyors
( 4) A licensed land surveyor and his assistants may, for the purpose of carrying out a title survey, at any reason-able time during the hours of daylight enter upon all lands which he is employed to survey, and upon any neighbouring lands and may emplace any boundary mark in or upon such lands and may dig up any ground mark for the purpose of emplacing such boundary mark and may cut down and re-move any timber or other growth which may obstruct any survey line or any boundary causing as little damage as possible thereby:
title survey
"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. "'
Provided that nothing in this section shall exempt such licensed surveyor or his assistant from liability for any dam-age which he may cause in the exercise of the powers confer-red by this subsection.
For the purpose of obtaining data for a title sur-vey, a licensed land surveyor may at all reasonable times be permitted to inspect relevant Survey Department maps and plans and to take copies of such information therefrom as he may require without payment of search fees:
Provided that he shall, by virtue of this Act, be liable to keep Government fully and effectually indemnified in re-spect of any loss of, damage or expense whatsoever incurred by or on behalf of Government by reason of any loss of or damage to any such maps or plans occurring at any time when they are under his control.
Terms defined in s 2
boundary mark
Defined · s 2"boundary mark" means any mark authorised by law for the purpose of making boundaries;
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;
Register
Defined · s 2"Register" means the register of licensed land sur-veyors kept in accordance with section 4;
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. "'