This Act is administered in Land Information New Zealand.
1 Title
Part 1Preliminary provisions
2 Commencement
3 Purpose
4 Interpretation
Part 2Administration
Surveyor-General
5 Surveyor-General
6 Deputy Surveyor-General
7 Functions and duties of Surveyor-General
8 Delegation of Surveyor-General's functions, duties, and powers
Chief executive
9 Functions of chief executive
Cadastral Surveyors Licensing Board of New Zealand
10 Cadastral Surveyors Licensing Board of New Zealand
11 Functions and duties of Board
12 Powers of Board
13 Membership of Board
14 Further provisions relating to Board and its members
15 Liability of members and employees
16 Application of fees received by Board
17 Fees and allowances
18 Unauthorised expenditure
19 Accounts
20 Annual report
Part 3Licensing of cadastral surveyors
21 Register of cadastral surveyors
22 Entitlement of applicant for licence
23 Character of applicant
24 Applications for licence
25 Board to consider applications
26 Board to license applicant or decline application
27 Duration of licence
28 Renewal of licence
29 Cadastral surveyor to notify change of business address
30 Amendment of register on change of name and removal of name on request
31 Offences relating to licences
32 Transitional provision: registered surveyors
33 Transitional provision: applications to be registered surveyor
Part 4Discipline
34 Professional Misconduct
35 Complaints of professional misconduct
36 Vexatious or trivial complaints
37 Procedure if Board accepts complaint
38 Hearing of complaint
39 Disciplinary powers of Board
40 Powers and rights of Board and persons involved in proceedings of Board
41 Appeals from decisions of Board
42 Suspensions and conditions must be entered in register
43 Surrender of licences
44 Publication of orders
45 Copies of rules and procedures to be made available on request
46 Transitional provision
Part 5Conduct of cadastral surveys
47 General duties in relation to cadastral surveys
48 Regulations
49 Surveyor-General may make rules about conduct of cadastral surveying
50 Transitional provision: Surveyor-General's rules
51 Expiry of section 50
52 Correction of errors in survey
53 Powers of entry for cadastral survey purposes
Part 6Offences and penalties
54 Obstruction of cadastral surveyor
55 Interference with survey marks
56 False cadastral survey marks
57 Unlicensed persons not to act as licensed cadastral surveyors
58 Offences relating to terms implying person is licensed cadastral surveyor
Infringement offences
59 Infringement offences
60 Commission of infringement offence
61 Infringement notices
62 Payment of infringement fees
63 Regulations
Part 7Dissolution of Survey Board of New Zealand and New Zealand Institute of Surveyors
64 Dissolution of survey board of New Zealand
65 Dissolution of New Zealand Institute of Surveyors
Part 8Miscellaneous
66 Certification of plans and descriptions
67 Certificate by or on behalf of Board to be evidence of being licensed, etc
68 Consequential amendments and repeals
69 References in other enactments
Schedule 1Further provisions applying to board
Schedule 2Professional misconduct
Schedule 3Amendments to Survey Act 1986 and Survey Regulations 1998 for purposes of section 50(1)(a)(II)
Schedule 4Acts amended
Schedule 5Enactments repealed or revoked
Legislative history
The Parliament of New Zealand enacts as follows: