Welcome to the Surveyors Board of Queensland
The site provides information to stakeholders of the Board - the public and registered persons,
including surveying graduates and associates.
The Board, through the Surveyors Act 2003, is the link between
the community and surveyors.
What's New - Last Updated: 21/12/2011
Mining Endorsement - 100 Point Test
This test is only to comply with Unit 1, Element 1.1 of the Surveyors Competency Framework and applies for a limited time until 31 December 2012. Please click
here regarding the test.
Cadastral Survey
The Board takes this opportunity to inform surveyors of the Board's interpretation of section 75 of the Surveyors Act 2003.
For your reference s75 states:
75 Carrying out a cadastral survey
(1) A person must not carry out a cadastal survey unless the person is-
(a) a cadastral surveyor; or
(b) a surveyor, surveying graduate or surveying associate carrying out the survey under supervision of a cadastral surveyor who, expressly or impliedly, accepts responsibility for the survey's survey quality.
Maximum penalty - 100 penalty point.
(2) A person must not charge a fee for carrying out a cadastral survey unless the person is a consulting cadastral surveyor.
Maximum penalty - 50 penalty units.
A penalty unit is equivalent to $100.00.
The Board has approved the following definitions.
Cadastral Survey
"A cadastral survey is any activity that uses or generates cadastral evidence to produce an outcome whose primary purpose is boundary determination. The products of a boundary determination can be plans, certificates or digital data. This does not include the representation of cadastral data."
Carrying Out
A person is carrying out a cadastral survey if they are present at the site of the survey and directing the field activity.
Under the above definitions, the following practices would not comply with Section 75:
* sending an unregistered technican into the field to measure the location of existing cadastral survey marks, so that a cadastral surveyor can work out the reinstatement in the office;
* loading the locations of new corners in an estate into the data recorder, and sending an unregistered technican into the field to place the pegs and reference marks.
Removal Of Survey Pegs
The Board receives enquiries from members of the public and surveyors relating to the removal of 'survey marks' (usually boundary marks) by known and unknown / unidentified persons. Please click here regarding an information sheet.
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