Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) A person must not
wilfully and without lawful excuse destroy, mutilate, deface, take away or
alter a survey mark placed, sunk or set up for the purposes of this Act.
Penalty for this subsection:
(a) for
a first offence, a fine of $2 000;
(b) for
a subsequent offence, a fine of $4 000.
(2) A person must not
wilfully and without lawful excuse obstruct a person —
(a)
placing, sinking or setting up a survey mark; or
(b)
carrying out a survey,
for the purposes of
this Act.
Penalty for this subsection: a fine of $2 000.
(3) In this section
—
survey mark means cairn, beacon, structure,
trigonometrical station, post, peg, block, plug, tube, pipe, spike, pole or
other survey mark of whatsoever material composed.
[Section 268 amended: No. 4 of 2023 s. 91.]