Hong Kong Ordinances

LAND SURVEY ORDINANCE - SECT 20

Disciplinary offences

An authorized land surveyor commits a disciplinary offence if he-

   (a)  is convicted in Hong Kong or elsewhere of any offence involving fraud,
        dishonesty or moral turpitude;

   (b)  obtains his registration or renewal of registration by fraud or
        misrepresentation;

   (c)  is convicted in Hong Kong or elsewhere of any offence punishable by
        imprisonment for a term of 2 years or longer and sentenced to
        imprisonment, whether suspended or not;

   (d)  is negligent or misconducts himself in any professional respect as an
        authorized land surveyor;

   (e)  certifies that any land boundary survey or any part of such survey was
        carried out by him personally or under his personal supervision or
        direction without having personally carried out or supervised or
        directed the survey or that part of the survey;

   (f)  certifies that any land boundary plan correctly represents the results
        of a land boundary survey knowing that it does not correctly represent
        such results;

   (g)  certifies that any survey record plan correctly records the survey
        data in a land boundary survey knowing that it does not correctly
        record such data;

   (h)  certifies that any field note correctly records the field observations
        or measurements in a land boundary survey knowing that such note does
        not correctly record such observations and measurements;

   (i)  certifies the compliance of any land boundary survey or of any
        land boundary plan or survey record plan or field note produced from a
        land boundary survey with any code of practice approved under this
        Ordinance knowing that it does not so comply;

   (j)  supplies to the Authority any erroneous information in relation to any
        land boundary survey, knowing that the information supplied is
        erroneous;

   (k)  fails without reasonable excuse to perform any duty imposed on
        authorized land surveyors by or under this Ordinance; or

   (l)  fails without reasonable excuse to comply with a requirement of the
        Authority under section 30(6) or (8). (Enacted 1995)