Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) The Surveyor-General after due enquiry shall cause to be entered in a register in the Central Plan Office which shall be called the Central Plan Register and which shall be in the prescribed form and contain the prescribed classifications and particulars a record of such of the plans—
(a) set out on any list forwarded to him under the foregoing provisions of this Act; or
(b) forwarded to him under the foregoing provisions of this Act—
as appear to him to be of general value for the purpose of this Act and shall cause to be marked or stamped upon every such plan (whether in the Central Plan Office or not) such particulars of its registration and classification as are prescribed.
(2) Where it appears to the Surveyor-General that any registered plan in the possession of any department or public authority is of such general value for the purposes of this Act that it ought to be lodged in the Central Plan Office, then—
(a) in the case of any plan in the possession of a department—with the consent of the Minister of the department concerned; and
(b) in the case of any plan in the possession of a public authority—with the consent of the chairman or president of such authority—
such plan may notwithstanding anything in any Act be lodged and kept in the Central Plan Office.
(3) No registered plan which remains in the possession of any department or public authority shall be destroyed or except in pursuance of this Act removed out of the possession of such department or authority without the consent in writing of the Surveyor-General.
(4) Any alteration to any registered plan which remains in the possession of any department or public authority shall within fourteen days of such alteration be notified in writing by the proper officer of such department or authority to the Surveyor-General and (where a copy of such registered plan has been provided to the Surveyor-General) a plan showing the details of such alteration shall be forwarded to the Surveyor-General with such notification.
(5) For the purpose of the registration and classification of plans pursuant to this Act, every person duly authorized by the Surveyor-General shall at all reasonable times have free access to all plans set out on any list forwarded to the Surveyor-General under the foregoing provisions of this Act which are in the possession of any department or public authority.
(6) The Surveyor-General shall cause to be published in the prescribed manner and form—
(a) in the month of July in every year in which the Minister so directs—an index of all plans recorded in the Central Plan Register as at the thirtieth day of June then last past; and
(b) in the month of July in every year in which an index as aforesaid is not published—a supplementary index of all plans so recorded since the last publication of the index or supplementary index (as the case may be) up to the thirtieth day of June then last past.
(7) A copy of such portion of each such index or supplementary index as is required shall be made available by the Surveyor-General—
(a) without charge, to the Commonwealth survey authority and to every department and public authority; and
(b) upon payment of the prescribed fee, to any person.
No. 4732 s. 9.
S. 9(1) amended by Nos 9549 s. 2(1)(Sch. item 225), 46/1998 s. 7(Sch. 1), 108/2004 s. 117(1) (Sch. 3 item 196.3).