Surveyors Regulations 2014 (Tas)

Surveyors Regulations 2014

I, the Lieutenant-Governor in and over the State of Tasmania and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, make the following regulations under the Surveyors Act 2002 .

1 December 2014

A. M. BLOW

Lieutenant-Governor

By His Excellency's Command,

JEREMY ROCKLIFF

Minister for Primary Industries and Water

PART 1 - Preliminary

1. Short title These regulations may be cited as the Surveyors Regulations 2014 .

2. Commencement These regulations take effect on the day on which their making is notified in the Gazette.

3. Interpretation In these regulations, unless the contrary intention appears – Act means the Surveyors Act 2002 ; agreement means a professional training agreement approved by the prescribed institute; candidate means a person who is registered as a candidate as provided in regulation 6 in order to establish his or her competency to practise as a registered land surveyor; certificate of competency means a certificate of competency issued by the prescribed institute under regulation 11 ; Council means the Council of the Reciprocating Surveyors Boards of Australia and New Zealand; professional practice examination means the professional practice examination specified in Part 3 of Schedule 1 ; rural project examination means the rural project examination specified in Part 1 of Schedule 1 ; urban project examination means the urban project examination specified in Part 2 of Schedule 1 .

4. Prescribed institute For the purposes of the Act, the Institute of Surveyors Tasmania is the prescribed institute.

PART 2 - Qualification, Training and Accreditation of Land Surveyors

Division 1 - Administration

5. Role and responsibilities of prescribed institute (1) The responsibilities of the prescribed institute are to administer the training, examination and accreditation of persons seeking to establish their competency to practise as registered land surveyors in Tasmania. (2) In performing its responsibilities under these regulations, the prescribed institute – (a) is to maintain consistency with established national competency standards, minimum qualifications, training, examination and accreditation requirements for registered land surveyors; and (b) may represent the interests of Tasmania, at meetings of the Council, in respect of the qualifications, training, examination and competency accreditation of persons seeking to become registered land surveyors; and (c) must not discriminate between persons who are members, or who are not members, of the prescribed institute. (3) The prescribed institute is to prepare and publish guidelines detailing the procedures to be adopted for the qualifications, training, examination and competency accreditation of persons seeking to establish their competency to practise as registered land surveyors, and the forms and certificates that are to be used for those purposes. (4) The prescribed institute may determine and publish a scale of such fees as it determines to be appropriate in respect of – (a) registration of candidates; and (b) assessment of qualifications; and (c) administration of professional training; and (d) conduct of examinations; and (e) assessment and accreditation of competency – but must not charge a fee that would recoup more than the cost of the service which is actually provided and to which the fee relates.