Section 10
Section 16 of the principal Act is amended—
of Licensed Land Surveyors (Amendment) Act 2024
(a)
in subsection (1)—
(i)
by substituting for the words “Director General of
Survey” the words “Director General of Survey and Mapping”; and
(ii)
by inserting after the words “title survey”
the words “or geomatics survey”;
Licensed Land Surveyors (Amendment)
(b)
in subsection (2)—
(i)
by substituting for the words “The Director
General of Survey or other person authorized by him to approve survey plans” the words
“The Director General of Survey and Mapping or any Government surveyor so authorized by him”;
(ii)
by inserting after the words “any error made by him” the words “on a title survey or geomatics survey”; and
(iii)
in the proviso—
(A)
by inserting after the words “relevant survey plan” the words “or geomatics survey plan, as the case may be,”; and
(B)
by substituting for the words
“Survey Department” the words
“Survey and Mapping Department
Malaysia”;
(c)
in subsection (3)—
(i)
by inserting after the words “within the time specified” the words “in the notice referred to in subsection (2)”;
(ii)
by inserting after the words “to correct such error”
the words “to the title survey,”; and
(iii)
by substituting for the words “Director General of Survey” the words “Director General of
Survey and Mapping, the Director of Survey and Mapping or the Deputy Director of Survey and Mapping”;
(d)
in subsection (4), by substituting for the words
“the Director General of Survey” the words “the Director
General of Survey and Mapping or any Government surveyor so authorized by him”; and
(e)
by inserting after subsection (4) the following subsection:
“(5) In the event of such licensed land surveyor refusing or neglecting within the time specified in the notice referred to in subsection (2) to correct such error to the geomatics survey, the Director General of
Survey and Mapping or any Government surveyor so authorized by him shall report the facts to the Board for disciplinary action.”.
Amendment of section 17