Land Surveyors Act |
(CHAPTER 156) |
(Original Enactment: Act 46 of 1970)
REVISED EDITION 1985 |
(30th March 1987) |
An Act to provide for the registration and control of land surveyors and for matters connected therewith. |
[1st September 1972] |
Short title |
1. This Act may be cited as the Land Surveyors Act. |
Interpretation |
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —
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Constitution of Board |
Meetings of Board and quorum |
4.—(1) The Board shall meet at such times and such places as the Chairman may appoint.
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Common seal of Board |
5.—(1) The common seal of the Board shall bear such a device as the Board may approve and the seal may from time to time be broken, changed, altered or made anew by the Board as it may think fit.
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Power to appoint officers |
6. The Board may appoint a Secretary and such other officers and employees as it thinks necessary. |
Register |
7.—(1) The Board shall cause a register to be kept which shall contain the names, addresses and qualifications of all registered surveyors, and all such other matters as may be prescribed.
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Persons entitled to be registered |
8.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, every person who is not less than 21 years of age and who is resident in Singapore shall, on payment of the prescribed fee, be entitled to be registered under this Act if he satisfies the Board that —
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Application for registration |
9. Every application for registration under this Act shall be made to the Board in such form or manner as may be prescribed. |
Certificate of registration |
10.—(1) The Board shall issue to each registered surveyor, upon application by the surveyor in the prescribed form and on payment of the prescribed fee, a certificate of registration.
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Notification of change of address |
11. Every registered surveyor shall notify the Secretary of any change in his residential or business address. |
Disciplinary powers of Board and cancellation of registration |
12.—(1) Subject to this section, the Board may by order cancel the registration of any registered surveyor or suspend him from practice for a period not exceeding one year under any of the following circumstances:
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Appeals from decisions of Board |
13. Every person who is dissatisfied with any decision of the Board relating to an application by him for registration, or to the removal of his name from the register, or to his suspension from practice, may, within 30 days after notice of the decision has been communicated to him by the Secretary, appeal to the High Court whose decision shall be final. |
Removal from register |
14. There shall be removed from the register the name and other particulars of any registered surveyor —
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Reinstatement |
15.—(1) Any person whose name has been removed from the register under section 14(b) shall be reinstated as soon as possible after he has notified the Secretary of his desire to be reinstated and upon payment of the prescribed fee.
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Penalty for wilful falsification of register and for wrongfully procuring registration |
16. Any person who wilfully makes or causes to be made any false entry in or falsification of the register, or wilfully procures or attempts to procure for himself or any other person to be registered as a surveyor under this Act by making or producing or causing to be made or produced any false or fraudulent representation or declaration, either verbally or in writing, and any person who knowingly aids or assists therein shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000. |
Illegal practice |
17. Any person who, not being a registered surveyor —
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Powers of a registered surveyor |
18.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act a registered surveyor is entitled to practise as a land surveyor and to undertake title surveys.
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Payment of title survey fees to registered surveyors |
19.—(1) Subject to subsection (2), a registered surveyor who is engaged on the title survey of any land in relation to which a deposit for survey fees has been made by an applicant for subdivision of the land under section 9(3) of the Planning Act [Cap. 232] shall be paid the prescribed fees by the Chief Surveyor from that deposit in accordance with any rules made under this Act.
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Deposit of plans |
20. On completion of a title survey the registered surveyor who signs the survey plan thereof shall deposit that plan together with the relevant field books, calculation sheets and survey data with the Survey Department and if the plan is approved by the Chief Surveyor or other officer appointed by him to approve it on his behalf all those documents shall become the property of the Government and shall be filed as permanent survey records. |
Approval of title surveys and assurance plans |
21.—(1) No title survey or survey plan thereof shall be accepted or adopted for the purpose of any written law unless it has been approved by the Chief Surveyor or other officer appointed by him to approve survey plans on his behalf.
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Duty of registered surveyor to complete title survey |
22.—(1) A registered surveyor who prepares and signs an assurance plan shall carry out and complete the title survey of the land described and shown in the plan within 6 months from the date of approval of the plan by the Chief Surveyor or such extended period as the Board may allow.
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Correction of errors |
23.—(1) The Chief Surveyor or any Government surveyor authorised by him may at any time undertake field and office checks on the title survey work of a registered surveyor.
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Application of fees, etc., received by Board |
24.—(1) All fees, penalties and other moneys payable under this Act shall be paid to the Board to be applied in the first place to defraying the expenses incurred by the Board in respect of its functions under this Act, including the remuneration of the Secretary and other officers and employees of the Board, and thereafter to providing scholarships and the promotion of learning and education in connection with the profession of surveying.
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Rules |
25. The Board may, with the approval of the Minister, make rules —
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Transitional provision |
26. All references in any written law to licensed surveyors shall after the commencement of this Act be read as references to registered surveyors within the meaning of this Act. |
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