Surveyors Registration Act

SURVEYORS REGISTRATION ACT. ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS. Section INTERPRETATION. 1. Interpretation. THE BOARD. 2. Establishment of Surveyors Registration Board. 3. Functions of the board. 4. General powers of the board. 5. Seal of the board. 6. Membership of the board. 7. Vice chairperson. MEETINGS OF THE BOARD. 8. Meetings of the board. 9. Transaction of business by circulation of papers. 10. Byelaws. REGISTRATION OF SURVEYORS. 11. Appointment of registrar. 12. Register of surveyors. 13. Publication of names, etc. in the Gazette . 14. Evidence of registration. 15. Qualifications for registration. 16. Temporary registration. 17. General disqualifications for registration. 18. Power to correct the register. 19. Issue of practising certificate. 20. Refusal of practising certificate. INQUIRIES. 21. Inquiries by disciplinary committee. 22. Penalties for misconduct. 23. Restoration to the register. 24. Powers to suspend registration, etc. 25. Appeal to the High Court. MISCELLANEOUS. 26. Style of "registered surveyor". 27. Restrictions on use of title. 28. Offences and penalties. 29. Regulations. 30. Amendment of Schedules. First Schedule Provisions relating to disciplinary committees.

use of title. 28. Offences and penalties. 29. Regulations. 30. Amendment of Schedules. First Schedule Provisions relating to disciplinary committees.

Second Schedule Acts or omissions constituting professional misconduct. CHAPTER 275 SURVEYORS REGISTRATION ACT. Commencement : 13 June, 1974. An Act to provide for the establishment of a Surveyor Registration Board, to define the powers and functions of the board, to provide for the registration of surveyors and for other matters connected therewith. INTERPRETATION. 1. Interpretation.

and functions of the board, to provide for the registration of surveyors and for other matters connected therewith. INTERPRETATION. 1. Interpretation.

(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires— ( a ) "board" means the Surveyors Registration Board established under section 2; ( b ) "chairperson" means the chairperson of the Surveyors Registration Board appointed under section 6; ( c ) "member" means a member of the Surveyors Registration Board; ( d ) "prescribed" means prescribed by regulations; ( e ) "professional misconduct" means any act or omission which is for the time being specified in the Second Schedule to this Act; ( f ) "registered surveyor" means a person whose name is for the time being entered in the register; ( g ) "registrar" means the registrar appointed under section 11; ( h ) "surveyor" includes land surveyors, quantity surveyors, building surveyors, mining and hydrological surveyors and valuation surveyors, as well as land agents and other professionals responsible for the management of land or buildings; ( i ) "vice chairperson" means the vice chairperson of the board elected under section 7.

sionals responsible for the management of land or buildings; ( i ) "vice chairperson" means the vice chairperson of the board elected under section 7.

(2) This Act shall be read and construed as one with the Survey Act; so, however, that the provisions of the Survey Act relating to the establishment, functioning and management of the Surveyors Licensing Board and to the registration, licensing and disciplining of land surveyors shall be superseded by the corresponding provisions of this Act. THE BOARD. 2. Establishment of Surveyors Registration Board. There is established a board to be known as the Surveyors Registration Board which shall, in that name, be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal and may sue and be sued in its corporate name and subject to this Act may do and suffer all such other acts and things as bodies corporate may lawfully do and suffer. 3. Functions of the board. The functions of the board shall be to regulate and control the profession of surveyors and the activities of registered surveyors within Uganda, and to advise the Government in relation to those functions. 4. General powers of the board.

and the activities of registered surveyors within Uganda, and to advise the Government in relation to those functions. 4. General powers of the board.

The board may do all such things as are calculated to facilitate or are incidental or conducive to better carrying out its functions and for this purpose, but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, may— ( a ) acquire, hold and in any way dispose of any property movable or immovable; ( b ) subject to this Act, exercise such powers in connection with the disciplining and the registration of or the suspension from registration of surveyors as are vested in it by or under this Act. 5. Seal of the board. (1) The seal of the board shall be kept in such custody as the board may from time to time direct, and shall not be affixed to any document or instrument except— ( a ) where the board, by resolution, authorises or ratifies the affixing; and ( b ) where the affixing is authenticated by the signatures of the chairperson or, in his or her absence, of any two members authorised by resolution of the board whether generally or specially to act in that behalf, and any such signatures shall be independent of any person who may have signed the document or instrument as a witness.

ecially to act in that behalf, and any such signatures shall be independent of any person who may have signed the document or instrument as a witness.

(2) Any document purporting to be a document duly executed under the seal of the board in accordance with this section shall be received in evidence in any court and shall, unless the contrary is proved, be presumed to be a document so executed. 6. Membership of the board. (1) The board shall consist of a chairperson and nine other members appointed by the Minister all of whom shall be registered surveyors. (2) A member of the board shall, unless he or she sooner resigns or his or her appointment is revoked by the Minister, hold office for two years from the date of his or her appointment and shall be eligible for reappointment. (3) The Minister may revoke the appointment of any member of the board, including the chairperson, and may appoint a new member or chairperson, as the case may be, to fill any vacancy occurring in the membership of the board to hold office for the remainder of the unexpired term of the member causing the vacancy. (4) The chairperson or any member of the board may resign his or her office by writing under his or her hand addressed to the Minister. 7. Vice chairperson. (1) The members of the board shall elect a vice chairperson from among their own number.

s or her hand addressed to the Minister. 7. Vice chairperson. (1) The members of the board shall elect a vice chairperson from among their own number.

(2) The vice chairperson shall hold office for a period of two years and shall be eligible for reelection. MEETINGS OF THE BOARD. 8. Meetings of the board. (1) The chairperson shall preside at all meetings of the board; and where he or she is absent from any meeting, the vice chairperson or, where both the chairperson and the vice chairperson are absent, such other member as the members present may elect shall preside at the meeting of the board. (2) Meetings of the board shall be held at intervals of not less than three months at such place and time as the chairperson may, from time This section of the article is only available for our subscribers. Please click here to subscribe to a subscription plan to view this part of the article. Home | About Us |--> Terms & Conditions | Privacy Statement | Publishing Services | Contact Us Sitemap --> --> Copyright 2019. Blackhall Publishing. All Rights Reserved. Design and Developed By : Indiafin Technologies Ltd .