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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 61

Examination Regulations under the Surveyors’ Institute and Board of Examiners Act, 1908.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by section seventeen of the Surveyors’ Institute and Board of Examiners Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), the Surveyors’ Board doth hereby repeal the regulations under the said Act dated the twenty-third day of February, one thousand nine hundred and nine, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the eleventh day of March, one thousand nine hundred and nine, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the following regulations for the guidance of persons who desire to be examined in accordance with the provisions of the said Act, or to obtain licenses thereunder; and doth hereby declare that such regulations shall come into force on the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

REGULATIONS.

1. EXAMINATIONS of candidates for certificates and licenses as surveyors shall be held in Wellington in the months of March and September of each year, and the date thereof shall be duly notified in the New Zealand Gazette.

2. An intending candidate shall, not less than ten days before the date fixed for the examination, forward to the Secretary of the Board—

   (a.) Notice of his intention to present himself for examination, together with the necessary documentary evidence of the particulars hereinafter required; and

   (b.) A fee of £1 1s.

EXAMINATION: PART I.

3. Each candidate shall provide himself with a book of mathematical tables, and all the necessary appliances for plan-drawing, except paper.

4. Every candidate shall satisfy the Board that he is of the full age of twenty years at the time of examination; but no certificate or license shall be issued until the candidate has reached the age of twenty-one years.

5. Every candidate shall produce satisfactory evidence as to character.

6. (1.) A candidate shall have passed the Matriculation Examination of the University of New Zealand or of a university recognized by the University of New Zealand, or the Public Service Entrance Examination (with the addition of passes in the arithmetic and algebra and geometry and trigonometry papers of the Public Service Senior Examination), or such other public examination as is, in the opinion of the Board, equivalent to any of the said examinations; and

   (a.) Shall have served as a field cadet in one of the Government Departments of Lands and Survey, or of Public Works, with some qualified surveyor or surveyors for not less than three years, two of which must have been spent in survey field practice; or

   (b.) Shall have served under articles with some qualified surveyor or surveyors in private practice for not less than three years, two of which must have been spent in survey field practice; or

   (c.) Shall have taken a degree at the University of New Zealand or at any university recognized by the University of New Zealand, or an associateship in engineering or in mining at any of the New Zealand university colleges, and shall have been professionally employed with some qualified surveyor or surveyors entirely in survey practice for not less than three years, two of which must have been spent in survey field practice to the satisfaction of the Board; or

   (d.) Shall have taken a degree in civil or mining engineering at the University of New Zealand or at any university recognized by the University of New Zealand;

   Or shall have kept terms for two years, and passed the examinations in the surveying course of any university college in New Zealand, provided that the lecturer is a