Standard Survey Marks Act 1924
Western Australia
Standard Survey Marks Act 1924
CONTENTS
1.Short title1
2.Interpretation1
3.Standard surveys may be made2
4.Powers to enable standard surveys and erecting survey marks2
5.Local governments to be notified of intention to place survey marks3
6.Survey marks to be preserved3
7.Regulations4
Notes
Compilation table5
Provisions that have not come into operation5
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.
This Act may be cited as the Standard Survey Marks Act 1924 1.
In this Act —
“Authoris
“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
“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
Plans representing all such surveys shall be retained in the Department of Land Administration 2 and certified copies supplied to the Registrar of Titles, the Under Secretary for Public Works 3, and the local government.
[Section 3 amended by No. 126 of 1987 s. 47; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4.]
4.Powers to enable standard surveys and erecting survey marks
An authoris
(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
(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
(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
[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
(2)Every person who, without the authority of an authoris
[Section 6 amended by No. 113 of 1965 s. 8(
The Governor may make regulations for the purposes of this Act
[8.Omitted under Reprints Act 1984 s. 7(4)(f).]
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.
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 |
Land Information Authority Act 2006 s. 159 4 |
60 of 2006 |
16 Nov 2006 |
To be proclaimed (see s. 2(1)) |
2 At the time this reprint was prepared the former Department of Land Administration was known as the Department of Land Information.
3 Now the chief executive officer assisting the Minister responsible for the administration of the Public Works Act 1902.
4On the date as at which this compilation was prepared, the Land Information Authority Act 2006 s. 159 had not come into operation. It reads as follows:
“
159.Standard Survey Marks Act 1924 amended
(1)The amendments in this section are to the Standard Survey Marks Act 1924.
(2)Section 3 is amended by deleting “in the Department of Land Administration and certified copies supplied to the Registrar of Titles, the Under Secretary for Public Works” and inserting instead —
“
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
”.
”.