Standard Survey Marks Act 1924

Western Australia

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 —

Authoris ed 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 authoris ed 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

An authoris ed land officer may cause a standard survey to be made in any locality for the purpose of establishing standard survey marks.

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.]

4.Powers to enable standard surveys and erecting survey marks

An authoris ed land officer, or any surveyor specially authoris ed 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 authoris ed land officer, or any surveyor authoris ed 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 authori sed 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 authoris ed land officer.

(2)Every person who, without the authority of an authoris ed 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

1This 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 1a. 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	25 Nov 1924	25 Nov 1924
Decimal Currency Act 1965	113 of 1965	21 Dec 1965	s. 4-9: 14 Feb 1966 (see s. 2(2)); balance: 21 Dec 1965 (see s. 2(1))
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)

1aOn the date as at which this compilation was prepared, provisions referred to in the following table had not come into operation and were therefore not included in this compilation. For the text of the provisions see the endnotes referred to in the table.

Provisions that have not come into operation

Short title	Number and year	Assent	Commencement
Standardisation of Formatting Act 2010 s. 512	19 of 2010	28 Jun 2010	To be proclaimed (see s. 2(b))

2On the date as at which this compilation was prepared, the Standardisation of Formatting Act 2010 s. 51 had not come into operation. It reads as follows:

51.Various written laws amended

(1)This section amends the written laws listed in the Table.

(2)Amend the provisions listed in the Table as set out in the Table.

80.Standard Survey Marks Act 1924

s. 3

An authorised

Plans

(1)An authorised

(2)Plans