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SURVEYORS BILL 2003

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                            Surveyors Bill 2003


                    SURVEYORS BILL 2003


                     EXPLANATORY NOTES

                                  FOR

  AMENDMENTS TO BE MOVED IN COMMITTEE BY
   THE HONOURABLE STEPHEN ROBERTSON MP

Title of the Bill
  Surveyors Bill 2003


Objectives of the Amendment
   The amendment will broaden the scope for persons to be nominated to
the Surveyors Board of Queensland. Clause 12(3) will be amended by
adding further criteria under which registered persons might be nominated
for Board appointment.


Estimated Cost for Government Implementation
   There are no costs implications for the Government or the Board
attaching to this Bill.


Consistency with Fundamental Legislative Principles
  The Bill is consistent with fundamental legislative principles.


Consultation
  This Bill emanated from an approach made by the Institution of
Engineering and Mining Surveyors Queensland in regard to member
opportunities to be nominated to the Board. Significant numbers of recent
 
 
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applications have been made from their institution membership for
registration with the Board.
  The Queensland Surveyors Board and other surveying entities have been
approached and are comfortable with the broadening of the criteria along
the lines proposed in the Bill.




                   NOTES ON PROVISIONS

  Clause 12 (3)[Omit, Insert]
  This amendment broadens the provisions for nominees to the
Queensland Surveyors Board so that recently registered and appropriate
surveyors might be nominated for consideration as members to the Board.
These surveyors might otherwise have been prevented from being
nominated by the Bill's five year registration requirement.
  The objective of this amendment will be achieved by permitting
registered surveyors with many years experience as a registered person
with the former Board of Examiners or longstanding membership of an
appropriate surveying entity, to be nominated for consideration as members
of the Board. In both cases the registration or membership need not
necessarily be held over a non-interrupted period.
  There are no other ways of achieving the objectives of this amendment.
The Surveyors Bill 2003 restricts nominees to the Board to those surveyors
who have been registered (with that Board) for more than five years. The
Minister or Governor in Council could not recommend or appoint a person
unless the five year requirement was satisfied.




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