Section 18

Subject to the provisions of this Act a registered surveyor is entitled to practise as a land surveyor and to undertake title surveys.

Nothing in this Act affects the right of the Chief Surveyor to employ any person who is not a registered surveyor on title surveys.

A registered surveyor or his assistants may, for the purpose of carrying out a title survey, at any reasonable time during the hours of daylight and on production of the Chief Surveyor’s authority in writing, enter upon all lands which he is employed to survey, and upon any neighbouring lands and any buildings on those lands and may emplace any boundary mark in or upon those lands and may dig up any ground for the purpose of emplacing the 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.

Nothing in this section shall exempt such a registered surveyor or his assistants from liability for any damage caused in the exercise of the powers conferred by subsection (3).

For the purpose of obtaining data for a title survey, the survey plan of which is to be lodged with the Survey Department, a registered surveyor may at all reasonable times be permitted to inspect the relevant maps and plans in the Department and to take copies of such information therefrom as he may require without payment of search fees, but he shall not remove any such maps and plans and is liable for any damage which he may cause to them while they are under his control.