10Pre-examination requisites

10 Pre-examination requisites

(1)  A candidate who wishes to obtain a certificate of competency may not undertake –

(a) the rural project examination in any year unless the candidate has, within the period of 3 years immediately preceding 30 June in that year, submitted 2 rural surveys to the prescribed institute; or

(b) the urban project examination in any year unless the candidate has, within the period of 3 years immediately preceding 30 June in that year, submitted 3 urban surveys to the prescribed institute.

(2)  The rural surveys and urban surveys referred to in subregulation (1)  –

(a) are to be completed and submitted to the prescribed institute by the candidate during the period of professional training undertaken by the candidate in accordance with regulation 9 ; and

(b) are taken not to be project surveys for the purposes of regulation 11(1)(a) or (b) and may not be used as such; and

(c) are to be certified by the surveyor under whose supervision they were undertaken to be surveys for which the candidate under supervision was primarily responsible.

(3)  The rural surveys referred to in subregulation (1)(a) are not required to cover any minimum area of land but are to include at least one boundary located in bushland and, when taken together, are to demonstrate the following survey practices:

(a) the re-establishment of original Crown grant boundaries and boundaries from surveys of registered lands;

(b) the re-establishment of a natural boundary;

(c) the re-establishment of occupied and unoccupied boundaries.

(4)  The urban surveys referred to in subregulation (1)(b) , when taken together, are to –

(a) demonstrate the survey practice of surveying a boundary which is physically obstructed by a wall, building or similar structure; and