Cadastral Residenal

Projects, Examinaons and AssessmentsThe Board congratulates the following candidateson passing their projects and thankstheir respecve supervising surveyors fortheir support and encouragement .Urban Cadastral ProjectCandidateSupervising Surveyor (Employer)Christopher Powell Geoffrey Turner LS (Bosco Johnson)Rural Cadastral ProjectCandidateMahew KingDamian SmaleSupervising Surveyor (Employer)Glen Villella LS (Breese Pi Dixon)Geoff Humphrey LS (Breese Pi Dixon)Formal Disciplinary HearingOn 4 October 2012, the Board received a complaint about the professional conduct ofMr Peter Farren LS.A formal hearing was held on 14 May 2013 into Mr Farren’s professional conduct to determinewhether he had engaged in unprofessional conduct within the meaning of paragraphs(a), (b), (c) and/or (d) as defined in secon 3 of the Surveying Act 2004 in connec-on with:• a cadastral survey made on 10 March 2005 and cerfied on 4 May 2005, and in par-cular in respect of compliance with Regulaons 10(1)(d) and 13(1) of the Surveyors(Cadastral Surveys) Regulaons 1995; and• a cadastral survey made on 24 May 2010 and cerfied on 16 August 2010, and inparcular in respect of compliance with Regulaons 11(1)(e) and 14(1) of the Surveying(Cadastral Surveys) Regulaons 2005.The Panel found that the Licensed Surveyor, whether by act or omission, engaged in unprofessionalconduct, which was not of a serious nature, pursuant to secon 27(1)(b) ofthe Surveying Act 2004.While the Panel found that there was no deliberate wrongdoing by Mr Farren or his staffin respect of either the first or the second survey, what has occurred here is an inadvertentfailure by Mr Farren to adequately supervise his staff and to fail to ensure that thenecessary checks were undertaken to correctly idenfy the boundary features of thesurvey site when cerfying the first survey under the 1995 Regulaons and the secondsurvey under the 2005 Regulaons.2(… connued on page 3)