Surveying and Spatial Information Regulation 2024 (2024-605) (NSW)

Surveying and Spatial Information Regulation 2024

Part 1 Preliminary

1 Name of regulation This regulation is the Surveying and Spatial Information Regulation 2024.

2 Commencement This regulation commences on 1 March 2025.

Note— This regulation repeals and replaces the Surveying and Spatial Information Regulation 2017, which would otherwise be repealed on 1 September 2025 by the Subordinate Legislation Act 1989, section 10(2).

3 Definitions (1) The dictionary in Schedule 9 defines words used in this regulation.

Note— The Act and the Interpretation Act 1987 contain definitions and other provisions that affect the interpretation and application of this regulation. (2) For the Act, section 3(1), definition of Australian Height Datum (or AHD), the datum surface approximating mean sea level adopted by the National Mapping Council of Australia in May 1971 is prescribed. (3) For the Act, section 3(1), definition of Geocentric Datum of Australia, the datum surface approximating the shape of the Earth's surface defined by the reference frame designated under the National Measurement (Recognized-Value Standard of Measurement of Position) Determination 2017 of the Commonwealth is prescribed.

Note— The reference frame designated under the National Measurement (Recognized-Value Standard of Measurement of Position) Determination 2017 of the Commonwealth is the Geocentric Datum of Australia 2020 (GDA2020) at the Reference Epoch of 2020.0.

4 Meaning of "urban land survey" and "rural land survey" (1) In this regulation, an urban land survey means a land survey of metropolitan land or rural residential land. (2) In this regulation, a rural land survey means a land survey that is not an urban land survey. (3) The Surveyor-General may issue guidelines in relation to what is taken to be metropolitan land or rural residential land.