Surveyors Act 1929 No 3
Repealed version for 17 July 2001 to 24 June 2003 (accessed 26 May 2013 at 18:39)
Part 3

Part 3 The register

8   Board to keep a register

(1)  The board shall cause a register to be kept which shall contain the names, addresses, and qualifications of all surveyors, the respective dates on which they were registered, and such other matters as the board may think fit or as may be prescribed.
(2)  The board shall cause a notification of the registration of every surveyor to be published in the Gazette.
(3)  The board shall, in the month of January in each year, cause a copy of the register signed by the president to be printed and published by the Government Printer.
(4)  A copy of the register purporting to be printed by the Government Printer which is for the time being the latest copy so printed shall in all proceedings be prima facie evidence that the persons whose names are therein contained, and no others, were surveyors registered under this Act at the time when the said copy of the register purported to have been so signed.
(5)  A document purporting to be a copy of an entry in the register and to be signed by the president or the registrar shall, in all proceedings, be prima facie evidence of the existence of such an entry in the register at the time such document purports to have been so signed.

9   Removal from register

The board may remove from the register the name of any person:
(a)  who dies, or
(b)  who becomes a mentally ill person, a protected person or an incapable person within the meaning of the Mental Health Act 1958, or
(c)  who notifies the registrar that he or she desires that his or her name be removed, or
(d)  whose entitlement to practise as a surveyor in some place outside the State of New South Wales is revoked or cancelled in accordance with the law in force in that place except where such revocation or cancellation is at his or her own request.

9A   Amendment of entry

The board may remove or amend any entry in the register if the entry is proved to its satisfaction to have been fraudulently made or procured or to be incorrect.

9B   Restoration of name removed from register

(1)  The board:
(a)  may, if it thinks fit, in any case, and
(b)  shall, where the surveyor affected has been reinstated pursuant to section 14 (4),
      restore to the register any name removed therefrom and such restoration may be made without payment of a fee or on payment of such fee, not exceeding the prescribed roll fee, as the board may direct.
(2)  Nothing in subsection (1) shall affect the provisions of section 10 (6).
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