New South Wales Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

SURVEYING REGULATION 2001

- Made under the Surveying Act 2002
- As at 1 September 2006
- Reg 682 of 2001

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 - PRELIMINARY

   1.      Name of Regulation
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Application of Regulation
   3A.     Mining surveys
   4.      Interpretation

   PART 1A - ADMINISTRATION

           Division 1 - Constitution of Board

   4A.     Constitution of Board: section 27
   4B.     Committees

           Division 2 - Formal Board determinations

   4C.     Formal Board determinations

           Division 3 - Registration of surveyors

   4D.     Qualifications for registration
   4E.     Board examinations
   4F.     Provision of further information and supporting evidence
   4G.     Continuing professional development
   4H.     Conditions of registration
   4I.     Surveyor to report position etc of permanent survey marks
   4J.     Register of surveyors
   4K.     Certificates of meritorious service

           Division 4 - Fees

   4L.     Fees

   PART 2 - GENERAL DUTIES OF SURVEYOR

   5.      Surveys under supervision of surveyor
   6.      (Repealed)
   7.      General principles of survey
   8.      Surveyor to indicate type of survey
   9.      Surveyor to record nature of boundaries
   10.     Surveyor to furnish certificate
   11.     Notice of proposed entry to land: section 19
   11A.    Certificate of authority: section 26
   12.     Surveyor to meet requisitions

   PART 3 - MEASUREMENT AND CALCULATIONS

   13.     Surveyor to obtain information
   14.     Equipment for measurement of surveys
   15.     Measurement of boundaries and lines
   16.     Measurement by remote-sensing methods
   17.     Partial surveys
   18.     Surveys for easements and restrictions on use
   19.     Re-survey of property boundaries
   20.     Surveys involving boundaries that include natural features
   21.     Procedure if crooked fence defines boundary
   22.     Calculation of areas of land
   23.     Surveys using global positioning system (GPS)
   24.     Surveyor to check angular work
   25.     Determination of angular close
   26.     Checking and accuracy of all measurements
   27.     Accuracy of length measurements
   28.     Identification or re-marking surveys
   29.     Surveys not requiring strict accuracy

   PART 4 - DATUM LINE

   30.     Procedure for adopting datum line
   31.     Surveyor to record datum line in field notes
   32.     Method of recording datum line on survey plan

   PART 5 - MONUMENTS AND REFERENCE MARKS

   33.     Connection of surveys and marks
   34.     Placement of pegs or marks
   35.     Urban surveys
   36.     Rural surveys
   37.     Placement of reference marks for roads
   38.     Procedure on finding existing corner peg and reference mark
   39.     Procedure if monuments of original survey missing
   40.     Procedure if differences exist between measured and recorded lengths
   41.     Surveyor to note nature and position of survey marks etc
   42.     Marking of survey boundaries
   43.     Survey marks and permanent survey marks
   44.     Placement of reference marks
   45.     Use of broad arrows
   46.     Datum used for levelling
   47.     Bench marks
   47A.    Placement of permanent survey marks by non-surveyors: section 25

   PART 6 - FIELD NOTES

   48.     Surveyor to make field notes
   49.     Electronic records
   50.     Surveyor to record astronomical observations
   51.     Method of recording bearings
   52.     Surveyor to record landmarks
   53.     Surveyor to sign and date field notes
   54.     Report by surveyor

   PART 7 - WATER AS A BOUNDARY

   55.     Location and relocation of mean high-water mark boundary
   56.     Location and relocation of banks of non-tidal streams or lakes
   57.     Determination of landward boundary of reservation or Crown road fronting a natural feature
   58.     Approval of Minister or adjoining owner to water boundary changes
   59.     Calculation of areas of land abutting a natural feature

   PART 7A - PUBLIC SURVEYS

   59A.    Standards of measurement and accuracy of public surveys: sections 4 and 5
   59B.    Field notes
   59C.    Conventional symbols and signs on plans

   PART 8 - MISCELLANEOUS

   60.     Deferment of placement of survey marks
   61.     Exemption by Surveyor-General
   62.     Effect of contravention
   62A.    Removal etc of survey marks
   62B.    Complaints against registered surveyors
   63.     Savings provision
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           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           SCHEDULE 4
           SCHEDULE 5
           SCHEDULE 6