Powers to enable standard surveys and erecting survey marks 2
Local governments to be notified of intention to place survey marks 2
Survey marks to be preserved 3
Regulations 4
Notes
Compilation table 5
Defined terms
Western Australia
Standard Survey Marks Act 1924
An Act to enable the Surveyor General to erect standard survey marks, to provide for their protection, and for other purposes incidental thereto.
1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Standard Survey Marks Act 1924 1.
2. Terms used
In this Act —
authorised land officer has the meaning given by the Land Administration Act 1997.
survey mark means any cairn, beacon, structure, post, peg, block, plug, tube, pipe, spike, pole, or other mark of whatsoever material composed, placed, sunk, or set up as a standard survey mark by the authority of the Surveyor General or, after the commencement of section 46 of the Acts Amendment (Land Administration) Act 1987 1, of an authorised land officer under the powers contained in this Act.
surveyor means a surveyor licensed under the Licensed Surveyors Act 1909.
[Section 2 amended: No. 126 of 1987 s. 46; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4; No. 31 of 1997 s. 141.]
3. Standard surveys may be made
(1) An authorised land officer may cause a standard survey to be made in any locality for the purpose of establishing standard survey marks.
(2) Plans representing all such surveys shall be retained by the Western Australian Land Information Authority established by the Land Information Authority Act 2006 section 5 and certified copies supplied to the Registrar of Titles, the chief executive officer of the department principally assisting in the administration of the Public Works Act 1902, and the local government.
[Section 3 amended: No. 126 of 1987 s. 47; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4; No. 60 of 2006 s. 159; No. 19 of 2010 s. 51.]
4. Powers to enable standard surveys and erecting survey marks
An authorised land officer, or any surveyor specially authorised by him, —
(a) may enter and re‑enter from time to time upon any land, or any public or private road, street or way, with such assistants as he thinks fit, for the purpose of making a standard survey; and
(b) may take materials from, or dig and bore into any land, road, street or way, so as to ascertain the nature of the soil, and may mark building, wall, or fence for the purpose of making a standard survey; and
(c) may fix or set up thereon or therein any standard survey mark which he considers advisable; and
(d) may do all things necessary for carrying out such survey in accordance with any regulations in force for the time being, or for any inspection, renewal, repair, or alteration of any standard survey mark.
[Section 4 amended: No. 126 of 1987 s. 48.]
5. Local governments to be notified of intention to place survey marks
Whenever practicable, reasonable notice shall be given by an authorised land officer, or any surveyor authorised by him, to the local government of the intention to place standard survey marks in the roads, streets, or ways of any district.
[Section 5 amended: No. 126 of 1987 s. 49; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4.]
6. Survey marks to be preserved
(1) When, under the powers contained in this Act, the Surveyor General or, after the commencement of section 50 of the Acts Amendment (Land Administration) Act 1987 1, an authorised land officer has caused standard survey marks to be placed in any road, street, or way for the permanent marking of the survey thereof so that the position of the corner of any road, street, or way may be readily found for the alignment of such road, street, or way, or for the purpose of locating the position of any allotment, or for any other purpose, the local government for the time being shall protect and preserve such standard survey marks as aforesaid, and shall not destroy, mutilate, deface, alter, or take away any such marks as aforesaid without the written authority of an authorised land officer.
(2) Every person who, without the authority of an authorised land officer, destroys, mutilates, defaces, takes away, or alters the position of any standard survey marks, or who obstructs any surveyor in carrying out any standard survey, shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding $40.
[Section 6 amended: No. 113 of 1965 s. 8(1); No. 126 of 1987 s. 50; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4.]
7. Regulations
The Governor may make regulations for the purposes of this Act.
[8. Omitted under the Reprints Act 1984 s. 7(4)(f).]
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Notes
1 This is a compilation of the Standard Survey Marks Act 1924 and includes the amendments made by the other written laws referred to in the following table. The table also contains information about any reprint.
Compilation table
Short title
Number and year
Assent
Commencement
Standard Survey Marks Act 1924
8 of 1924 (15 Geo. V No. 8)
25 Nov 1924
25 Nov 1924
Decimal Currency Act 1965
113 of 1965
21 Dec 1965
Act other than s. 4-9: 21 Dec 1965 (see s. 2(1)); s. 4-9: 14 Feb 1966 (see s. 2(2))
Acts Amendment (Land Administration) Act 1987 Pt. X
126 of 1987
31 Dec 1987
16 Sep 1988 (see s. 2 and Gazette 16 Sep 1988 p. 3637)
Reprint of the Standard Survey Marks Act 1924 as at 13 Feb 1989 (includes amendments listed above)
Local Government (Consequential Amendments) Act 1996 s. 4
14 of 1996
28 Jun 1996
1 Jul 1996 (see s. 2)
Acts Amendment (Land Administration) Act 1997 s. 141
31 of 1997
3 Oct 1997
30 Mar 1998 (see s. 2 and Gazette 27 Mar 1998 p. 1765)
Reprint 2: The Standard Survey Marks Act 1924 as at 5 Sep 2003 (includes amendments listed above)
Land Information Authority Act 2006 s. 159
60 of 2006
16 Nov 2006
1 Jan 2007 (see s. 2(1) and Gazette 8 Dec 2006 p. 5369)
Standardisation of Formatting Act 2010 s. 51
19 of 2010
28 Jun 2010
11 Sep 2010 (see s. 2(b) and Gazette 10 Sep 2010 p. 4341)
Reprint 3: The Standard Survey Marks Act 1924 as at 18 Sep 2015 (includes amendments listed above)
Defined terms
[This is a list of terms defined and the provisions where they are defined. The list is not part of the law.]