Licensed Surveyors Act 1886 (WA)

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ANNO QUINQUAGESIMO

VICTORIIE REGINA].

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No. VI.

AN ACT to provide for the Licensing of Land

Surveyors.

[ Assented to, 12th July, 1886. ]

HEREAS it is desirable to regulate, in certain respects, Australia and its Dependencies, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

the practice of Land Surveying in the Colony of Western Preamble'

W

Australia: Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Western

1.     THE Governor may from time to time appoint a Board of Appointment of

such other person or persons as he shall think fit.

Examiners, consisting of not less than three members, one of whom Board of Examiners.

shall be the Surveyor General of the Colony for the time being, who

shall be the President of such Board, under the style and description

of "The Land Surveyors Licensing Board," and the Governor may

from time to time remove the said members, or any or either of

them, and on the removal, death, resignation, or absence from the

2.      THE Board may, with the approval of the Governor, make Board may Inaka

rules for the conduct of examinations under this Act.

500 VICTORLE, No. 6.

The Licensed Surveyors Act, 1886.

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3.      IT shall be lawful for the said Board to recommend to the

Governor on recom-

mendation of Bond	Governor for appointment, for the purposes of this Act, fit and
may appoint Licensed	proper persons whose qualifications for the office shall have been
Surveyors.	satisfactorily ascertained by the said Board, and the Governor mat appoint such persons without salary, to be termed Licensed Sur- veyors.

SURVEYS made by such Licensed Surveyors shall, on veri- Survey Department of the Government and adopted in all questions between the Government and the occupiers of any demised waste lands of the Crown and between the occupiers of any such demised land as correct surveys.

4.

Government will ac-

cept surveys of	fication and approval by the Surveyor General, be accepted by the
Licensed Surveyors.

5.

PERSONS applying to be licensed for the purposes of -this Board, which shall inquire into the qualification of such applicant and shall also in all cases require to be satisfied that the applicant is a person of good fame and character.

Surveyors may be

examined prior to	Act shall, when required, submit to an examination by the said
issue of License.

6.

EVERY Surveyor prior to receiving a license shall make a Peace for the Colony, in the form annexed in Schedule A, that he will perform all surveys entrusted to him with strict impartiality, and in accordance with such rules and regulations as shall be prescribed by the Surveyor General with the approval of the Governor, and shall also at the same time enter into a joint and several bond to Her Majesty, with two sufficient sureties, and in a sum to be approved by the Surveyor General, conditioned to the effect of the aforesaid declaration.

Surveyors to make

declaration and give	statutory declaration before one of Her Majesty's Justices of the
bond.

7.     EVERY Surveyor appointed under this Act shall receive a

Issue of License. license, in the form annexed in Schedule B, signed by the Governor.

8.

EVERY Surveyor shall pay to the Colonial Treasurer the sum of Five pounds for such license aforesaid, provided that such fee shall not be charged in the case of licenses issued to Surveyors practising as such in Western Australia previous to the first day of June, 1886.

Fees to be paid.

9.      IT shall be lawful for any Licensed Surveyor to charge and

Surveyor's fees.

receive, from such party or parties as may employ him, such fees as

are provided for in Schedule C hereto annexed.

10.      IT shall be lawful for the said Board, with the approval of

License may be

revoked.

the Governor, to revoke any such license at any time by notice in

the Government Gazette.

50' VICTORUE No. 6.

The Licensed Surveyors Act, 1886.

THE words " Licensed Surveyor," when used in any Act

hereafter to be passed, shall be construed to mean a person licensed 1-1e,;.,c.:2s;,\;:,,,,

under the provisions of this Act.

12. ANY person who shall wilfully and falsely pretend to be iy

licensed under this Act, or who shall take or use the name or title of	ending to be e
licensed Surveyor, or any name, title, addition, or description implying that he is licensed under this Act, shall, upon summary conviction before one or more Justices of the Peace in Petty Sessions. pay a scan not exceeding One hundred pounds.

13.      THE said Board shall once at least in every year cause to be

p	ublished in the Government Gazette a correct register of all persons 13"'“: I" P"r.	i,
licensed under this Act, with the respective residences of such persons as far as known to the Board.

14.      A LICENSE granted under the provisions of this Act shall

not entitle the holder thereof to practise as a Surveyor under "The

Transfer of Land Act, 1874."

15.      THIS Act may be cited for all purposes as " The Licensed short nre

surveyors Act, 1886."

In the name and on behalf of the Queen I hereby assent

to this Act.

F. NAPIER BROOME.. Governor

50" VICTORIZE, No. 6.

The - Licensed Surveyors Act, 1886.

SCHEDULES REFERRED TO.

I, A. B., do solemnly and sincerely declare that I will, to the best of my ability and without partiality, favor, or affection, correctly survey and delineate the boundaries of such lands as may be entrusted to me to be surveyed, and in accordance with such Rules and Regulations as shall be prescribed by the Surveyor General with the approval of the Governor where the same apply, and I male this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of an Ordinance made and passed in the eighteenth year of the reign of Her present Majesty, No. 12, mtituled " An Ordinance for the Abolition of unnecessary Oaths, and to substitute Declarations in lieu thereof."

WESTERN AUSTRALIA, B.

To A. B. of

Having satisfactorily proved your qualifications to the Land Surveyors Licensing Board constituted under " The Licensed Surveyors Act, 1886," I do hereby, in pursuance of the powers vested in me by the said Act, appoint you, the said A.B., to be a Licensed Land Surveyor for the Colony of Western Australia under the provisions of the said Act.

Dated

C.

D.,

Governor.

C.

For every day employed upon any Survey, including the time occupied in travelling, and one plan of such Survey furnished to the employer, and one plan or diagram and field notes furnished to the Surveyor-General, an amount not exceeding (exclusive of wages and

expenses of party). .. .£3 3s.

By Authority: RICHARD PETHER, Government Printer. Perth.