Queensland’s new Survey and Mapping Infrastructure Regulation 2024 and Surveyors Regulation 2024 have come into effect as of 1 September 2024.
According to the latest Queensland surveying news alert, the Survey and Mapping Infrastructure Regulation 2024 provides the same effect as the expiring Surveying and Mapping Infrastructure Regulation 2014, but minor restructuring has been done to account for modern legislative drafting practice and better align with requirements of the Survey and Mapping Infrastructure Act 2003.
Two examples given, are:
- Details for preparing plans without carrying out a cadastral survey, previously located within section 16 of the 2014 Regulation, are now within section 18.
- Reinstating existing boundaries and notification of affected owners, previously located within sections 17 and 18 of the 2014 Regulation, are now within sections 19 and 20.
The Form 18 certificate for ‘cadastral plans-compiled’ will be updated to refer to the Survey and Mapping Infrastructure Regulation 2024 and will be available on the department website.
Cadastral Survey Requirements are currently under review and will be updated to refer to equivalent sections of the new regulation. Until then, references to the old regulation within v8.01 of the survey standards are taken to be a reference to the equivalent requirement under the new regulation.
The Surveyors Regulation 2024 has substantially the same effect as the expiring Surveyors Regulation 2014, with the exception of two significant areas:
- For board membership, the position of surveyor ‘directly involved in teaching surveying’ is removed, with this position instead becoming another cadastral surveyor. The existing appointee in this position will remain until the end of their term.
- The minimum amount of professional indemnity insurance required to be held by a consulting surveyor has increased to two million dollars. For existing registrations, the increased requirement does not apply until renewal for another term of registration. New applications must meet the increased requirement from 1 September 2024.
