Survey and Mapping Infrastructure Act 2003
An Act to provide for developing, maintaining and improving the State’s survey and mapping infrastructure, and for other purposes
Part 1 Preliminary
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Survey and Mapping Infrastructure Act 2003.
2 Commencement
This Act commences on a day to be fixed by proclamation.
3 Purposes of Act
(1)The main purposes of this Act are to provide for the following—(a)developing, maintaining and improving the State survey and mapping infrastructure;(b)maintaining and improving cadastral boundaries throughout the State and information held by the department about the boundaries;(c)coordinating and integrating survey and mapping information;(d)improving public access to survey and mapping information;(e)defining administrative areas, and describing and working out administrative area boundaries.(2)The purposes are to be achieved mainly by providing for the following—(a)the making of standards and guidelines for achieving an acceptable level of survey quality;(b)the obligations and powers of persons carrying out surveys;(c)the establishment and maintenance of recognised permanent survey marks;(d)the recording of survey and mapping information, including the establishment of the following State datasets—(i)the administrative area boundary dataset;(ii)the State remotely sensed image library;(iii)the State digital cadastral dataset;(iv)the survey control register.
4 Act binds all persons
(1)This Act binds all persons, including the State, and, as far as the legislative power of the Parliament permits, the Commonwealth.(2)Nothing in this Act makes the Commonwealth or the State liable to be prosecuted for an offence.
5 Definitions
The dictionary in the schedule defines particular words used in this Act.
Part 2 Survey standards and survey guidelines
6 Survey standards
(1)The chief executive may make written standards for surveying (survey standards) to achieve an acceptable level of survey quality.(2)A survey standard must—(a)be consistent with the principles, stated in a regulation, to be applied in carrying out a survey; and(b)state—(i)the area to which it applies; and(ii)the type of survey to which it applies.(3)A survey standard may be made about all or any of the following for a survey—(a)the coordinate reference framework to be used;(b)the information to be collected;(c)the information to be shown on the plan of survey, including how the information must be shown;(d)how the information and plan of survey may be given to the chief executive under this Act, including, for example, by electronic communication;(e)the accuracy level to be achieved;(f)the characteristics of the survey marks to be used;(g)particular requirements for—(i)the surveying of any tidal or non-tidal boundary; and(ii)the extent to which, and how, searchable registered, or otherwise authoritative, information held by the registrar of titles or the chief executive can be used to represent any length of a tidal or non-tidal boundary of land on the plan of…