Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The chief executive may make written standards for surveying (survey standards) to achieve an acceptable level of survey quality.
(2) A survey standard must—
(a) be consistent with the principles, stated in a regulation, to be applied in carrying out a survey; and
(b) state—
(i) the area to which it applies; and
(ii) the type of survey to which it applies.
(3) A survey standard may be made about all or any of the following for a survey—
(a) the coordinate reference framework to be used;
(b) the information to be collected;
(c) the information to be shown on the plan of survey, including how the information must be shown;
(d) how the information and plan of survey may be given to the chief executive under this Act, including, for example, by electronic communication;
(e) the accuracy level to be achieved;
(f) the characteristics of the survey marks to be used;
(g) particular requirements for—
(i) the surveying of any tidal or non-tidal boundary; and
(ii) making use of searchable registered, or otherwise authoritative, information held by the chief executive (land) or the registrar of titles for the plan of survey if it is a compiled plan of survey in relation to a tidal or non-tidal boundary; and
(iii) the type and extent of information to be supplied for demonstrating consistency with the public interest under part 7;
(h) another matter prescribed under a regulation for this subsection.
(4) The coordinate reference framework mentioned in subsection (3)(a) must be consistent with the geodetic reference framework prescribed under a regulation for use for surveying and mapping in the State.
(5) A survey standard is a statutory instrument, but is not subordinate legislation.
(6) In this section—
electronic communication see the Electronic Transactions (Queensland) Act 2001, schedule 2.