Malaysia legislation

Section 3

of LICENSED LAND SURVEYORS (AMENDMENT) ACT 2024

Section 3

Amendment of section 2

(a)

by inserting after the definition of “boundary mark”

the following definitions:

‘ “Director General of Survey and Mapping” means the officer performing the duties of the head of the Survey and Mapping Department Malaysia;

“Director of Survey and Mapping” means the officer performing the duties of the head of the Survey and

Mapping Department Malaysia at a state;

“geomatics survey” means any survey undertaken for the purposes of production of or in connection with, maps, geomatics survey plans or information using survey-accurate techniques;

“geomatics survey plan” means a plan signed by a licensed land surveyor recording and depicting the work carried out by him on a geomatics survey, or a plan signed by an officer authorized by the Director General of Survey and Mapping to do so recording the work of a Government surveyor on a geomatics survey;’;

(b)

by deleting the definition of “Director General of Survey”;

(c)

by substituting for the definition of “Government surveyor”

the following definition:

‘ “Government surveyor” means any public officer of Malaysia who is authorized by the Director General of Survey and Mapping to undertake any title survey or geomatics survey, and for the purposes of sections 8, 9 and 10 and paragraph 19(a), includes the Director General of Survey and Mapping;’;

(d)

in the definition of “Minister”, by substituting for the word “lands” the words “survey and mapping”;

Licensed Land Surveyors (Amendment)

(e)

in the definition of “reciprocating territory”, by deleting the words “within the Commonwealth”;

(f)

in the definition of “Register”, by inserting after the word

“kept” the words “and maintained”;

(g)

in the definition of “survey plan”, by substituting for the words “an officer authorized by the Director General of

Survey to do so and recording the work of a Government

Surveyor” the words “the Director General of Survey and

Mapping, the Director of Survey and Mapping or the Deputy Director of Survey and Mapping recording the work of a Government surveyor on a title survey”; and

(h)

in the definition of “title survey”—

(i)

by renumbering paragraph (a) as paragraph (aa);

and

(ii)

by inserting before paragraph (aa) as renumbered the following paragraph:

“(a) the preparation of a pre-computation plan;”.

Amendment of section 4

Section 3 — AKTA JURUUKUR TANAH BERLESEN (PINDAAN) 2024