Summary

(a) A common request by surveyors is for dispensation from the Surveyor-General’s Rules for Cadastral Survey 2002/2 to allow a parcel on a proposed dataset to be presented as a Parcel Diagram. The criteria to be addressed when making application is provided in Section 11.1 of the Cadastral Survey Guidelines. Dispensation is required from all or some of Rules 19, 26, 28 and 29.

(b) This Ruling describes particular cases where, pursuant to Rule 44 of the Surveyor- General’s Rules for Cadastral Survey 2002/2, the Surveyor General is satisfied that it is not necessary to apply Rules 19, 26, 28 and 29 fully to a survey that would otherwise be a Class III survey and specifies different requirements