SURVEY AND MAPPING INFRASTRUCTURE ACT 2003

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SURVEY AND MAPPING INFRASTRUCTURE ACT 2003

- As at 27 April 2025
- Act 71 of 2003

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Long Title

PART 1 - PRELIMINARY

1. Short title
2. Commencement
3. Purposes of Act
4. Act binds all persons
5. Definitions

PART 2 - SURVEY STANDARDS AND SURVEY GUIDELINES

6. Survey standards
7. Survey guidelines
8. Consultation for survey standard or survey guideline
9. Making survey standard or survey guideline and when it takes effect
10. Public access to survey standards and survey guidelines
11. Inconsistencies between survey standards and survey guidelines
12. Regulation may make provision about survey standard and survey guideline matters

PART 3 - CARRYING OUT SURVEYS

Division 1 - Obligations of surveyors, surveying associates and surveying graduates

13. Compliance with survey standards
14. How to comply with survey standards
15. Obligation on person placing permanent survey mark
16. Obligation on cadastral surveyor
17. Resolving inconsistencies between plans of survey

Division 2 - Exemption from survey standard

18. Application for exemption
19. Decision on application
20. Review of decision

Division 3 - Surveyors’ powers

21. Power to place a permanent survey mark
22. Power to enter places
23. Surveyor’s notice of entry
24. General powers after entering places
25. Power to uncover buried survey mark
25A. Special provision for taking of soil samples etc. for collecting relevant evidence

Division 4 - Other matters about the exercise of surveyors’ powers

26. Notice of damage
27. Obstructing a surveyor

Division 5 - Correcting survey errors

28. Correcting survey errors
29. Show cause notice
30. Considering submissions
31. Giving correction notice

Division 6 - Miscellaneous

32. Authority for cadastral surveyor to act for another in particular circumstances

PART 4 - SURVEY MARKS

Division 1 - Establishing recognised permanent survey marks

33. State surveys
34. Chief executive may obtain information about survey marks placed other than in carrying out a State survey
35. Establishing survey marks as recognised permanent survey marks
36. Removing or changing classification of recognised permanent survey mark

Division 2 - Maintaining recognised permanent survey marks

37. Responsibility for recognised permanent survey marks placed in carrying out State surveys
38. Responsibility for recognised permanent survey marks on State-controlled roads
39. Responsibility for recognised permanent survey marks on local government controlled roads
40. Responsibility for recognised permanent survey marks on land, other than roads, controlled by a public authority
41. Notifying public authority about responsibility for recognised permanent survey marks

Division 3 - Interfering with survey marks

42. Offence about interfering with survey mark
43. Authority to interfere with recognised permanent survey mark
44. Reinstating recognised permanent survey mark

Division 4 - Miscellaneous

45. Reporting and recording changes in recognised permanent survey mark

PART 5 - RECORDING SURVEY AND MAPPING INFORMATION

Division 1 - State datasets

Subdivision 1 - State digital cadastral dataset

46. State digital cadastral dataset
47. Effect and use of information in State digital cadastral dataset

Subdivision 2 - Other State datasets

48. Administrative area boundary dataset
49. Public authority may give chief executive information about administrative area boundaries
50. State remotely sensed image library
51. Survey control register
52. Other datasets

Subdivision 3 - Other provisions about State datasets

53. Chief executive may arrange for another entity to keep a State dataset
54. Access to information in State datasets

Division 2 - Obligations of persons to provide information and data for survey and mapping infrastructure purposes

55. Surveyor’s obligation
56. Public authority’s obligation

PART 6 - ADMINISTRATIVE AREAS

Division 1 - Defining administrative areas

57. Ways of defining an administrative area

Division 2 - Working out administrative area boundaries

58. Application of div 2
59. Meaning of particular words used in describing an administrative area boundary
60. References to features forming part of an administrative area boundary
61. Working out an administrative area boundary shown on a plan

PART 7 - TIDAL AND NON-TIDAL BOUNDARIES AND ASSOCIATED MATTERS

Division 1 - Preliminary

62. Definitions for part
63. Meaning of watercourse for this part
64. Application of ambulatory boundary principles in this part
65. Special provision for reserved plans of survey
65A. Special provision for old plans of survey
65B. Special provision for particular boundaries of new land

Division 2 - Tidal boundaries

Subdivision 1 - Preliminary

66. Non-application of sdivs 2 to 4 to particular land
67. Overview of sdivs 2 to 6
68. Operation of sdivs 2 to 4
69. Noting of advice about operation of sdiv 3 or div 3
70. Meaning of tidal boundary of land
71. Meaning of specified tidal boundary
72. Tidal boundary location criteria
73. Special regulation-making power to support tidal boundary location
74. Special provision for plans of survey approved under stay provisions

Subdivision 2 - Locating tidal boundaries at law until registration of first new plan of survey

75. Application of sdiv 2
76. Current adopted natural feature rule (tidal) provision
77. Current adopted natural feature rule (tidal) exception provision

Subdivision 3 - Locating tidal boundaries at law from registration of first new plan of survey

78. Application of sdiv 3
79. (Repealed)
80. Original adopted natural feature rule (tidal) provision
81. First exception for the original adopted natural feature rule (tidal) provision (alternative natural feature exception)
82. Second exception for the original adopted natural feature rule (tidal) provision (applied criteria exception)
83. Third exception for the original adopted natural feature rule (tidal) provision (chief executive single lot declaration (tidal) exception)

Subdivision 4 - Locating tidal boundaries at law from registration of subsequent new plan of survey

84. Application of sdiv 4
85. (Repealed)
86. First new plan of survey adopted feature rule (tidal)

Subdivision 5 - Locating tidal boundaries at law on coming into force of new source material

87. Application of sdiv 5
88. Special requirement to support the operation of sdiv 5
89. New source material adopted feature rule (tidal)

Subdivision 6 - Esplanades

90. Boundary of land with excluded or dedicated esplanade—source material coming into force before commencement
91. Boundary of land with excluded or dedicated esplanade—source material coming into force after commencement
92. Boundary of land subject to reservation of esplanade, before dedication

Division 3 - Miscellaneous issues in the tidal environment

93. Multiple lot declaration (tidal) provision
94. No compensation for operation of div 2 or this division

Division 4 - Non-tidal boundaries

Subdivision 1 - Preliminary

95. Non-application of sdivs 2 to 4 to particular land
96. Overview of sdivs 2 to 6
97. Operation of sdivs 2 to 4
98. Noting of advice about operation of sdiv 3 or div 5
99. Meanings of non-tidal boundary (lake) and non-tidal boundary (watercourse)
100. Non-tidal boundary (watercourse) location criteria
101. Special regulation-making power to support non-tidal boundary (watercourse) location

Subdivision 2 - Locating non-tidal boundaries (watercourse) at law until registration of first new plan of survey

102. Application of sdiv 2
103. Current adopted natural feature rule (non-tidal) provision
104. Current adopted natural feature rule (non-tidal) exception provision
105. No shift of boundary towards watercourse

Subdivision 3 - Locating non-tidal boundaries (watercourse) at law from registration of first new plan of survey

106. Application of sdiv 3
107. (Repealed)
108. Boundary location criteria rule (non-tidal) provision
109. First exception for the boundary location criteria rule (non-tidal) provision (chief executive single lot declaration (non-tidal) exception)
110. Second exception for the boundary location criteria rule (non-tidal) provision (previous sudden change)

Subdivision 4 - Locating non-tidal boundaries (watercourse) at law from registration of subsequent new plan of survey

111. Application of sdiv 4
112. (Repealed)
113. First new plan of survey adopted feature rule (non-tidal)

Subdivision 5 - Locating non-tidal boundaries (watercourse) at law on coming into force of new source material

114. Application of sdiv 5
115. Special requirement to support the operation of sdiv 5
116. New source material adopted feature rule (non-tidal)

Subdivision 6 - Locating non-tidal boundaries (lake)

117. Application of sdiv 6
118. Special requirement to support the operation of sdiv 6
119. Lake boundary rule

Division 5 - Miscellaneous issues in the non-tidal environment

120. Multiple lot declaration (non-tidal) provision
121. No compensation for operation of div 4 or this division

Division 6 - Review of declaration decisions and appeals

Subdivision 1 - Right of appeal

122. Right of appeal

Subdivision 2 - Internal review of decisions

123. Appeal process starts with internal review
124. Applying for review
125. Decision on reconsideration

Subdivision 3 - Appeals

126. Who may appeal
127. Procedure for an appeal to the court
128. Powers of court on appeal
129. Effect of decision of court on appeal
130. Evidentiary provisions for appeal

PART 8 - MISCELLANEOUS

131. Evidentiary provisions about State remotely sensed image
132. Protection from liability
133. Deciding fees
134. Delegations
135. Approval of forms
136. Regulation-making power

PART 9 - TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND REPEALS FOR ACT NO. 71 OF 2003

Division 1 - Transitional provisions

137. Existing State control survey
138. Existing established permanent marks
139. Existing survey control database
140. References to Administrative Boundaries Terminology Act 1985
141. References to repealed Survey Act

Division 2 - Repeals

142. Acts repealed

PART 10 - TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS FOR LAND AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2023

143. Existing survey standards and survey guidelines continue in effect
144. Public access to survey standards and survey guidelines made before commencement
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