Complaints of Professional Misconduct by Licensed Cadastral Surveyor

Complaints about the professional misconduct of Licensed Cadastral Surveyors should be made to the Cadastral Surveyors Licensing Board of New Zealand (CSLB).  
 
Complaints of this nature relate to the placing of survey boundary pegs in subdivisions or boundary redefinition surveys.  This work is regulated by the Cadastral Surveyors Licensing Board of NZ which is a government body to ensure that boundary surveys are carried out to the correct high standards set by the Surveyor General’s Office.
 
The CSLB may receive complaints alleging:
 
  • a licensed cadastral surveyor has been guilty of professional misconduct;
  • a licensed cadastral surveyor is not entitled to be a licensed cadastral surveyor
 
Details of what constitutes professional misconduct are set out in Schedule 2 of the Cadastral Survey Act 2002 and include the following:
 
  • to have been negligent in the conduct of, or failure to conduct, any cadastral survey:
  • to have certified to the accuracy of any cadastral survey or cadastral survey dataset without having personally carried out or directed the cadastral survey and the related field operations:
  • to have certified to the accuracy of any cadastral survey or cadastral survey dataset without having carried out sufficient checks to ensure the accuracy of the entries in any field book and the accuracy of all calculations, working plans, and other cadastral survey records that may have been made by any person employed by him or her in relation to the cadastral survey:
  • to have certified to the accuracy of any cadastral survey carried out by the cadastral surveyor or under his or her personal direction if the operation of pegging and ground marking, and all other requirements of the cadastral survey, have not been carried out in accordance with standards set under Part 5:
  • to have certified to the accuracy of any cadastral survey or cadastral survey dataset, knowing it to be defective:
  • to have made any entry in any field book or other record that purports to have been derived from actual observation or measurement in the field, if in fact it has not been so derived:
  • to have supplied to the Surveyor-General any erroneous information in relation to any cadastral survey, cadastral survey mark, or boundary, knowing the information to be erroneous in any material particular:
 
For further details please see the CSLB website.