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Survey Co-ordination Act 1967.

Type of law
Legislation
Date of original text
Date of latest amendment
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Abstract
This Act provides for the control and coordination of land surveying and the carrying out of public surveys.
“Survey” is defined in section 2. There shall be a Central Plan Office in the Office of the Surveyor General (sect. 3). A liaison officer shall be appointed in each public office under section 4. The Surveyor General may connect proposed surveys to existing surveys pursuant to section 6. For the purposes of this Act, there shall be established and maintained in the Central Plan Office a register, to be called the Central Plan Register (sect. 8). Recorded plans shall be entered into the Register in accordance with section 8. The Surveyor General may: (a) cause to be carried out any survey that he considers necessary or desirable for the purposes of this Act; and (b) establish on the area so surveyed such permanent marks as he considers necessary, and may cause a record of the plan of every such survey to be entered in the Central Plan Register. Other provisions concern permanent marks, the annual report of the Surveyor General and regulation making powers of the Head of State.
Long title of text
Being an Act to provide: (a) for the co-ordination of surveys; and (b) for the establishment of a Central Plan Office for the recording of surveys and plans, and information relating to surveys and plans, and for related purposes.
Notes
Repinted version of 2006 of Chapter 95.
Repealed
No
Serial Imprint
Papua New Guinea Consolidated Legislation 2006.
Source language

English

Legislation Amendment
No
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