Hong Kong Ordinances

LAND SURVEY ORDINANCE - SECT 6

Appointment of Land Surveyors Registration Committee

PART III

LAND SURVEYORS REGISTRATION COMMITTEE

(1) The Secretary shall appoint a committee to be known as the Land Surveyors
Registration Committee consisting of-

   (a)  the Authority as the chairman;

   (b)  2 public officers from the Lands Department who-

        (i)    have at least 5 years land boundary survey experience in Hong
               Kong; and

        (ii)   are nominated by the Authority;

   (c)  subject to subsection (2), 3 persons, not being public officers, who-

        (i)    have at least 5 years land boundary survey experience in Hong
               Kong; and

        (ii)   are nominated by the Institute.

(2) The persons to be appointed under subsection (1)(c), other than the
persons to be appointed to form the first Committee, shall, in addition to
fulfilling the requirements set out in that subsection, be
authorized land surveyors.

(3) The Registrar shall, as soon as it is practicable after the first
Committee is appointed under subsection (1), enter in the register the names
of the members of the first Committee who were appointed under subsection
(1)(c).

(4) For the avoidance of doubt, it is declared that upon the entry in the
register of the names of the members of the first Committee who were appointed
under subsection (1)(c), such members become authorized  land surveyors and
shall pay to the Registrar the prescribed fee for registration. (Enacted 1995)