Survey and Mapping Infrastructure Act 2003 (Qld)

Survey and Mapping Infrastructure Act 2003

An Act to provide for developing, maintaining and improving the State's survey and mapping infrastructure, and for other purposes

Part 1 Preliminary

1 Short title This Act may be cited as the Survey and Mapping Infrastructure Act 2003.

2 Commencement This Act commences on a day to be fixed by proclamation.

3 Purposes of Act (1) The main purposes of this Act are to provide for the following— (a) developing, maintaining and improving the State survey and mapping infrastructure; (b) maintaining and improving cadastral boundaries throughout the State and information held by the department about the boundaries; (c) coordinating and integrating survey and mapping information; (d) improving public access to survey and mapping information; (e) defining administrative areas, and describing and working out administrative area boundaries. (2) The purposes are to be achieved mainly by providing for the following— (a) the making of standards and guidelines for achieving an acceptable level of survey quality; (b) the obligations and powers of persons carrying out surveys; (c) the establishment and maintenance of recognised permanent survey marks; (d) the recording of survey and mapping information, including the establishment of the following State datasets— (i) the administrative area boundary dataset; (ii) the State remotely sensed image library; (iii) the State digital cadastral dataset; (iv) the survey control register.

4 Act binds all persons (1) This Act binds all persons, including the State, and, as far as the legislative power of the Parliament permits, the Commonwealth. (2) Nothing in this Act makes the Commonwealth or the State liable to be prosecuted for an offence.