Mission of the Board
The Board aims to ensure public confidence in the profession of surveying.
The mission shall be achieved through administration of the Act and meeting/implementing the following corporate objectives:
- Education: To encourage educational institutions to ensure that
their programs achieve an approriate level of academic standard in surveying.
- Training: To encourage the development of training programs that
will deliver appropriate levels of accredited professional competence
in surveying.
- Registration: To implement, apply and maintain a competency framework for registration that recognises the responsibilities of surveyors as well as the
diverse manner by which the knowledge,
skills and abilities can be achieved.
- Maintaining Competence of Surveyors: To encourage industry bodies to provide programs that assist surveyors to
maintain their competence.
- Community: To ensure that the community's confidence in the surveying profession is maintained by ensuring all registratants
maintain an appropriate level of competency.
- Conduct and Professionalism: To review and adopt a Code of
Practice about appropriate professional conduct, in consultation
with key stakeholders, to meet community expectations.
- Complaints and Discipline: To efficiently and effectively manage
all complaints made against surveyors to maintain community
confidence in the surveying profession. To implement effective investigatory and disciplinary procedures dealing with breaches of
the Surveyors Act 2003.
- Government Legislation: To provide proactive advice to
government on existing and proposed legislation relevant to
surveyors and the community.
- Governance: To administer the Board's functions with
accountability, probity and in an ethical manner such that the community and the profession obtain maximum benefit from the
Board's functions and resources. To obtain funding which reflects
the beneficiaries of the Board's activities.