Valuation Surveyors Act, 1976 (Chapter 207)
Zambia
Valuation Surveyors Act, 1976
Chapter 207
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Commenced on 1 August 1979
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This Act may be cited as the Valuation Surveyors Act. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—"Board" means the Valuation Surveyors Registration Board established under section four;"Chairman" means the chairman of the Board and includes any member elected to act as chairman under section seven;"land" includes land of any tenure, and tenements and hereditaments, corporeal or incorporeal, and houses and other buildings, also an undivided share in land, but does not include any mining right as defined in the Mines and Minerals Act in or in respect of any land;[Cap. 213]"member" means a member of the Board;"registered" means registered under this Act; and "registration" shall be construed accordingly;"valuation surveyor" means a person engaged in the business of valuation of land, whether as a private practitioner or as an employee or agent of some other person; and "valuation surveying" shall be construed accordingly. The Board may, with the approval of the Minister, by statutory instrument, make rules relating to all or any of the following matters:(a)the management of the Board, the holding of meetings of the Board, the issue of notices calling such meetings and the procedure to be followed at such meetings;(b)the appointment and duties of the officers of the Board;(c)the professional conduct of valuation surveyors; the mode of inquiry into breaches of the rules of professional conduct and the penalties therefor;(d)the conditions of engagement of valuation surveyors in private practice on a piece-work basis and the scale of fees to be charged by them for professional advice tendered and services rendered;(e)the procedure to be followed by persons applying for registration;(f)the fee for registration and the annual subscription to be paid by a valuation surveyor; and the purposes for which the moneys received as such fees and subscriptions may be spent;(g)the suspension of registration and the cancellation of registration of valuation surveyors;(h)the maintenance and improvement of the status and qualifications of valuation surveyors. The Board shall keep and maintain a register to be known as the "Register of Valuation Surveyors" wherein shall be entered in respect of every person to be registered as a valuation surveyor, his name and address, qualifications, date of registration and such other particulars as may be prescribed by regulations. The Board shall, at least once in every calendar year, by Gazette notice, publish a list of full names of all persons then on the register. A person shall not be registered as a valuation surveyor unless, on the date of his application for registration, he has attained the age of twenty-one years and has—(a)(i)passed such qualifying examination as the Minister may, after consultation with the Board, prescribe; and(ii)completed such period of such practical training in the work of a valuation surveyor as the Minister may, on the recommendation of the Board, consider satisfactory; or(b)acquired such qualifications and experience as the Minister may, after consultation with the Board, consider to be adequate for efficient practice as a valuation surveyor. The Board may suspend the registration of any valuation surveyor or strike out of the register the name of any valuation surveyor who is found, after due inquiry by the Board, to have been guilty of professional misconduct. Any person aggrieved by a decision of the Board may, within twenty-eight days of receiving a copy of such decision, appeal to the High Court, and the High Court may make such order thereon as it thinks fit. The Minister may, by statutory instrument, make regulations for the better carrying out of the purposes of this Act.1. Short title
2. Interpretation
3. Prohibition of un-registered persons from practising
4. Establishment of Board
5. Tenure, duties, etc., of members
6. Resignation and removal
7. Meetings and decisions of Board
8. Rules
9. Register of valuation surveyors
10. Publication of list of valuation surveyors
11. Qualifications for registration
12. Suspension of valuation surveyors
13. Appeals
14. Regulations