Contents (Version July 2021 Edition 2)

1. Cadastral Surveys Practice Directives

1.1 Purpose of Cadastral Surveys Practice Directives
1.2 Disclaimer
1.3 Role of the Surveyor-General of Victoria
1.4 Compliance and Survey Audit Program

2. Connection of cadastral surveys to MGA2020 and the Survey Control Network

2.1 General comments

2.2 Specific requirements for connection to the Survey Control Network
2.2.1 Land subdivisions (large and small), building subdivisions, application surveys under the Transfer of Land Act 1958, boundary plan surveys and Crown surveys

2.3 MGA2020 bearing connection derived by GNSS equipment
2.3.1 General
2.3.2 GNSS measurement quality and site-specific error sources
2.3.3 Maximising NRTK positioning quality
2.3.4 Verifying GNSS measurements
2.3.5 Deriving bearing and ground distance from GNSS positioning

2.4 Cadastral surveys exempt from connection to MGA2020

2.5 Permanent marks
2.5.1 Registration of new and/or unregistered permanent marks
2.5.2 Provision of Permanent Mark information on survey documents

2.6 Primary cadastral marks
2.6.1 What is a primary cadastral mark?
2.6.2 Provision of PCM information on survey documents

2.7 Recording the map projection and zone

3. Marking of boundaries

3.1 Direct marking
3.2 Indirect marking
3.3 Non-marking

4. Record of having re-established a cadastral boundary

4.1 RE Plan requirements
4.1.1 SPEAR
4.1.2 RE Plan diagram
4.1.3 Boundary marking in re-establishment surveys
4.1.4 Notations
4.1.5 Boundary dimensions
4.1.6 Disclaimers
4.1.7 RE Plan Example

4.2 Initial re-establishment surveys for subdivisions

4.3 Plans of subdivision

5. Licensed Surveyor’s Report

5.1 Title and requirements

5.2 Format of report

5.3 SPEAR requirements

5.4 EDM calibration and verification of GNSS/emerging technologies
5.4.1 Calibration of EDM equipment
5.4.2 Verification of GNSS Equipment
5.4.3 Verification of emerging technologies

5.5 Crown descriptions

5.6 Other inclusions (Appendices)

6. Abstracts of field records

6.1 General advice
6.1.1 The purpose for preparing an abstract of field records
6.1.2 Life of a survey and abstract of field records

6.2 Land Registry Services requirements
6.2.1 Requirement for an abstract of field records
6.2.2 Subdivision of ‘Super-Lots’ and subsequent stages of an ’estate’ type Master Plan

6.3 Format of the abstract of field records
6.3.1 If conventional traversing techniques have been employed
6.3.2 If non-conventional measurement techniques have been employed
6.3.3 Postponement of placement of marks and/or lodgement of supplementary abstract of field records

7. EDM calibration and verification of GNSS/ emerging technologies

7.1 Meeting EDM standards requirements
7.2 Verification of GNSS
7.3 Verification of emerging technologies

8. Precision of dimensions on plans of cadastral surveys and abstracts of field records

9. General advice

9.1 Surveyor-General consent to Crown land boundary determinations
9.2 State border determinations
9.3 Consideration of the width of roads

Appendix A: Survey documents required when lodging a plan of subdivision or consolidation

Exemptions to providing an abstract of field records

Partial surveys

Non-survey guidelines for plans lodged under Section 32, Subdivision Act 1988

Appendix B: LUV guidelines for estate subdivisions
Supplementary abstract of field records

Licensed surveyor’s report

Examples of licensed surveyor’s reports

Appendix C: Abbreviations used in this documentVersion