Standards and Guidelines for GNSS Surveys

It was agreed at the 23 February 2016 meeting of the Surveyors Board to endorse the below provisional documents of which will be enacted until an alternative version is adopted. It is expected that in the near future these documents will be part of a broader review of survey practice.

Cadastral Surveys (provisional)

Provisional Standards and Guidelines for the use of GNSS on Cadastral Surveyors (pdf 378kb)

Control Surveys (provisional)

Provisional Standards and Guidelines for the use of GNSS on Control Surveys (pdf 292kb)

ICSM Standard for the Australian Survey Control Network Special Publication 1 (SP1)

The Standard for the Australian Survey Control Network – Special Publication 1 and associated Guidelines provides the principles and practices for surveyors with respect to the maintenance of Australia’s survey control mark network:

Standard for the Australian Survey Control Network Special Publication (link to: http://www.icsm.gov.au/geodesy/sp1.html)

Recognising these ICSM publications, the Board recommend that for land boundary surveys they be used in conjunction with the Board’s documents - Standards and Guidelines for the use of GNSS on Cadastral, and Control Surveys within the Northern Territory.

Surveyors Board Directions

Survey Practice Direction 2017

• CRM and Traverses on Survey Plans and Sacred Sites (pdf 139 kb)

Survey Practice Direction 2016

• Surveyor Requirements for Isolated Parcels (pdf 376 kb)
• Easements on Survey Plans (pdf 115 kb)
• PDF Lodgement of Survey Plans (pdf 132 kb)

Survey Practice Direction 2014

• Surveys outside coordinated survey areas (pdf 780 kb)

**These directions commence on 1 July 2014

Survey Practice Directions 2003

• Surveys within coordinated survey areas (pdf 197 kb)
• Surveys outside coordinated survey areas (pdf 200 kb)

Plan Drawing Standards

• Plan drawing standards (pdf 2.0 mb)

Licensed Surveyors Act

• Licensed Surveyors Act

Forms

• Application to Restore Name to Register of Licensed Surveyors (76.5 kb)
   Application to Restore Name to Register of Licensed Surveyors (41.6 kb)
• Application for New Registration as a Surveyor (80.8 kb)
  Application for New Registration as a Surveyor (42.2 kb)
• Application for Registration under Mutual Recognition (95.9 kb)
  Application for Registration under Mutual Recognition (57.5 kb)
• Request for Letter of Accreditation from the Surveyors Board (76.4 kb)
  Request for Letter of Accreditation from the Surveyors Board (42.5 kb)
• Application for Professional Assessment Examination (75.4 kb)
  Application for Professional Assessment Examination (40.8 kb)

Prescribed Fees

The prescribed fees are defined by revenue units. The monetary value of a revenue unit is calculated using Consumer Price Index data for Darwin, as set out in the Revenue Units Act 2009. The monetary value of the revenue unit is reviewed by government once a year, with any increase to take effect on 1 July each year.

As per Gazette notice S47 and Gazette notice G35 all Board fees have been increased from 1 July 2017 and will continue to increase each year for three years.

The current fees are: