Western Australia Standard Survey Marks Act 1924 Western Australia Standard Survey Marks Act 1924 CONTENTS 1. Short title 1 2. Interpretation 1 3. Standard surveys may be made 2 4. Powers to enable standard surveys and erecting survey marks 2 5. Local governments to be notified of intention to place survey marks 3 6. Survey marks to be preserved 3 7. Regulations 4 Notes Compilation table 5 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. Interpretation 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 by 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 by 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; (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; (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 by 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 by 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 by 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 Reprints Act 1984 s. 7(4)(f).] 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 |Assent |Commencement | | |and year| | | |Standard Survey |8 of |25 Nov 1|25 Nov 1924 | |Marks Act 1924 |1924 |924 | | |Decimal Currency |113 of |21 Dec 1|s. 4-9: 14 Feb 1966| |Act 1965 |1965 |965 | | | | | |(see s. 2(2)); | | | | |balance: 21 Dec | | | | |1965 (see s. 2(1)) | |Acts Amendment |126 of |31 Dec 1|16 Sep 1988 (see | |(Land |1987 |987 |s. 2 and Gazette | |Administration) | | |16 Sep 1988 | |Act 1987 Pt. X | | |p. 3637) | |Reprint of the Standard Survey Marks Act 1924 as at | |13 Feb 1989 (includes amendments listed above) | |Local Government |14 of |28 Jun 1|1 Jul 1996 (see | |(Consequential |1996 |996 |s. 2) | |Amendments) | | | | |Act 1996 s. 4 | | | | |Acts Amendment |31 of |3 Oct 19|30 Mar 1998 | |(Land |1997 |97 |(see s. 2 and | |Administration) | | |Gazette 27 Mar 1998| |Act 1997 s. 141 | | |p. 1765) | |Reprint 2: The Standard Survey Marks Act 1924 as at | |5 Sep 2003 (includes amendments listed above) | |Land Information |60 of |16 Nov 2|1 Jan 2007 (see | |Authority |2006 |006 |s. 2(1) and Gazette| |Act 2006 s. 159 | | |8 Dec 2006 p. 5369)| |Standardisation |19 of |28 Jun 2|11 Sep 2010 (see | |of Formatting |2010 |010 |s. 2(b) and Gazette| |Act 2010 s. 51 | | |10 Sep 2010 | | | | |p. 4341) |