THE SURVEYORS' INSTITUTE BILL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2257, 27 June 1881, Page 3

THE SURVEYORS' INSTITUTE BILL.

[Bt Telegraph. J fpEOM THE OWN COBRHSPONDENT OF THE " PBBS8." ] WELLINGTON, June 25. Tho New Zealand Institute of Surveyors' Bill, introduced by Mr Tole, incorporates the Institute with the usual powers. The following are the chief points .-—Clause 9 : Tho Council shall have full power to examine and inquire into or cause to be examined and inquired into, the qualification and fitness of candidates claiming to bo admitted as members of the Institute, and the method, nature and _ extent of such examination and the inquiry may be regulated by by-laws made and passed hereunder. (10) No person shall hereafter beoome a member of the said Institute unless he bo over twenty-one years of age, and shall have had not less than five years' professional experience, and shall be possessed of—(a) a certificate of having passed an examination as an authorised surveyor for the colony of New Zealand, or such other certificate as the Council of the Institute shall deem requisite, or (b) who shall have passed such examination as the Council shall prescribe by the by-law to be passed under this Act. (II) At any general meeting of members of the Institute it shall be lawful for them, or such of them as sball be present, to make such by-laws, rules or orders as to them shall seem necessary, convenient or proper for the regulation and government of the said Institute, and for fixing the manner of eleoting the Counoil, president, vicepresident, treasurer, secretary, auditors, and suoh other officers as shall be deemed necessary, and the qualifications respectively for such officers, and the term of their continuance in office, and the manners and time in whioh any vacancy shall be filled up, and for the regulations appointing and admitting persons to be members of the institute, and for expelling members therefrom for misconduct and malpractice, and for convening ordinary or special meetings of members, and for the granting of certificates of competency under tho section hereof, end for conferring fellowships, and creating honorary memberships and other titles of distinction, and generally for oarrying the objects for which the institute is formed to full and complete effect,; with power to impose a reasonable and annual subscription upon members of the institute, whioh said subscription the president of the institute may sue for and recover in his own name, and also with power to impose reasonable penalties and fines, to be contained in suoh by-laws, upon offenders for the non-per-formance of or disobedience to the same, and such by-laws may be from time to time altered, varied, or revoked, and new bylaws may be made and passed, so that the samo be not repugnant to this Act. (12.) No person practising the profession of surveyor in New Zealand shall be entitled to recover any fee or reward for any professional services in any court of law or equity in New Zealand unless such person shall have been at the time of the performance of such service a member of tho Institute, or be possessed of one or other of the qualifications enumerated and set forth under section 10 of this Act, except surveyors who have been licensed under the Land Transfer Act, 1870, prior to the passing of this Aot, and any oontraot to pay such fee or reward to such person not being a member of the said Institute or possessing one or other of the said qualifications shall be void. (13 ) A register shall be kept at the city of Wellington (and suoh other place or places as may be fixed by by-law), of all persons who are for the time being members of the Institute, and the qualifications by virtue of which they are entitled to membership. The register shall be open during all reasonable business hours for inspection, and shall be open to the inspection of any member gratis, and to the inspection of other persons on payment of the Bum of one shilling. Should the register upon production be prima faoie evidence, then any person whose name is therein inscribed is a member of the said Institute under this Aot. It will be observed from the above that persons not members of the Institute are not excluded from practising provided that they are competent. This is introduced to remove the objection raised on that point.