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Licensed Land Surveyors Act 1958 PDF
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LAWS OF MALAYSIA
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Act 458
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THE COMMISSIONER OF LAW REVISION, MALAYSIA
UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE REVISION OF LAWS ACT 1968
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PERCETAKAN NASIONAL MALAYSIA BHD
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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Section
1. Short title
2. Interpretation
3. Establishment of the Board
4. Constitution of the Board
5. Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Board
6. Meetings of the Board, and quorum
7. Power to appoint Secretary, examiners and other officers
8. Register
9. Persons entitled to be registered
10. Licence to practise and renewal of licence
11. General funds of the Board, accounts and expenses
12. Arrangements with reciprocating territories
13. Powers of a licensed land surveyor
14. Deposit of plans
15. Approval of title surveys
16. Correction of errors
17. Disciplinary powers of the Board
18. Appeal to the High Court
19. Illegal practice
20. Existing licensed surveyors
21. Regulations
22. Repeal
SCHEDULE
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Short title
Interpretation
6. (1) The Board shall meet at such times and such places as the
Chairman may appoint.
(4) The Board may make rules for the conduct of its business.
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(2) The Secretary shall not be a member of the Board and shall
not have any vote in its deliberations.
Register
(3) The Board shall, before the thirty-first March in each year,
publish in the Gazette a list of the names of all licensed land
surveyors and shall within six weeks of the issue, cancellation or
suspension of any licence to practise publish a notice thereof in
the Gazette.
(5) The Board shall remove or amend any entry in the Register
which is proved to its satisfaction to have been fraudulently procured
or made, or to be incorrect.
(6) The Secretary shall remove from the Register the name of
any person, not being a Government surveyor, whose licence to
practise has not been renewed before the first day of February in
any year.
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(7) The Board may, if it thinks fit, restore to the Register any
name removed therefrom with or without the payment of the
prescribed fees.
10. (1) The Board shall issue to each person other than a Government
Surveyor, registered in accordance with section 9 upon application
by such person in the prescribed form and on payment of the
prescribed fee a licence to practise in the prescribed form, valid
for the year of registration:
11. (1) All fees and fines payable under this Act and such other
sums as may be paid to the Board shall be credited to the general
funds of the Board.
(2) There shall be paid from the funds of the Board to the
members such fees for attendance and such reasonable travelling
expenses and subsistence allowances as may from time to time be
approved by the Minister.
12. (1) The Board may enter into arrangements with the Surveyors
Board or other competent authority of a reciprocating territory for
the recognition of the status of any person authorized by such
Board or other authority to practise as a licensed land surveyor in
such reciprocating territory and may prescribe what additional
evidence of character and competency must be produced before
such person may be licensed under this Act.
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(2) The Board may enter into arrangements with the Surveyors
Board or other competent authority in a reciprocating territory for
the setting and acceptance of joint papers in professional subjects
under the examination rules prescribed by the Board.
(2) Nothing in this Act shall affect the right of the Director
General of Survey to employ Government surveyors, whether licensed
land surveyors or not, on any type of title survey whatsoever.
(3) Nothing in this Act shall affect the right of any person, not
being a licensed land surveyor to undertake surveys other than title
surveys.
(4) A licensed land surveyor and his assistants may, for the
purpose of carrying out a title survey, at any reasonable time
during the hours of daylight enter upon all lands which he is
employed to survey, and upon any neighbouring lands and any
buildings on such lands and may emplace any boundary mark in
or upon such lands and may dig up any ground for the purpose
of emplacing such boundary mark and may cut down and remove
any timber or other growth which may obstruct any survey line
or any boundary causing as little damage as possible thereby:
(5) For the purpose of obtaining data for a title survey, the
survey plan of which is to be lodged with a Government Survey
Department, a licensed land surveyor may at all reasonable times
be permitted to inspect relevant Survey Department maps and
plans and to take copies of such information therefrom as he may
require without payment of search fees, but he may not remove
any such maps and plans from departmental custody and he will
be held pecuniarily liable for any damage which he may cause to
them while they are under his control.
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Deposit of plans
Correction of errors
Provided that such notice is sent not more than twelve months
after the date on which the relevant survey plan was deposited
with the Survey Department as provided in section 14.
17. Where, after due enquiry by the Board, a licensed land surveyor
has been found to have been guilty of professional misconduct, or
having been convicted of a criminal offence, is found by the Board
to be unfit to practise, the Board may—
(a) strike off the name of such licensed land surveyor from
the Register;
(b) suspend such licensed land surveyor from practice as a
licensed land surveyor for a period not exceeding three
years;
(c) impose a fine on such licensed land surveyor not exceeding
five hundred ringgit; or
(d) reprimand such licensed land surveyor.
Illegal practice
19. Any person who, not being a licensed land surveyor, wilfully
and falsely pretends, or takes or uses any name or title implying
that he is a licensed land surveyor, or not being a licensed land
surveyor or a Government surveyor, certifies to the accuracy of
any title survey or signs or initials any survey plan or, not being
a person acting under the immediate personal direction and
supervision of a licensed land surveyor, carries out or undertakes
to carry out any work, in connection with a title survey, shall be
guilty of an offence against this Act and shall be liable to a fine
not exceeding five hundred ringgit for each offence and to a further
penalty of fifty ringgit for each day during the continuance of such
offence.
Regulations
21. (1) Subject to this Act the Board may with the approval of
the Minister make regulations to prescribe anything which under
this Act is required to be prescribed and generally to carry out the
objects and purposes of this Act.
Repeal
[Paragraph 9(1)(c)]
I, A.B., do hereby solemnly and sincerely declare that I will to the best of my
ability, without partiality or favour, correctly survey and delineate the boundaries
of any lands I may be instructed to survey, in strict compliance with the
regulations and instructions, for the time being in force, of the Board constituted
by the Licensed Land Surveyors Act 1958.
A.B.
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