NZQA registered unit standard
8782 version 7
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Title
Demonstrate knowledge of land legislation and land development in
New Zealand in a surveying context
Level
5
Credits
10
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: describe
patterns of New Zealand land settlement; describe influences
of land settlement and legislation on land title; outline the New
Zealand legislative process with reference to the development
of land law; identify and describe New Zealand land registration
systems with reference to survey practice; outline the Cadastral
Survey Act and legislation with reference to land titles; describe
procedures for establishing the status and title of land; describe
land ownership; and demonstrate knowledge of statutory taking
or acquisition of land for public purposes.
Classification
Surveying > Survey - Land Administration and Applied
Resource Management
Available grade
Achieved
Explanatory notes
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Legislation and documentation relevant to this unit standard include:
Cadastral Survey Act 2002;
Companies Act 1993;
Conservation Law Reform Act 1990;
Land Act 1892;
Land Act 1948;
Land Transfer Act 1952;
Local Government Act 2002;
National Parks Act 1980;
Property Law Act 1952;
Public Works Act 1981;
Resource Management Act 1991;
Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993/The Māori Land Act 1993;
Unit Titles Act 1972;
Cadastral Survey (Fees) Regulations 2003;
Hinde McMorland and Sim Land Law in New Zealand (student edition), Volume 1
and 2 (Wellington: LexisNexis, 2003 & 2004), available at
http://www.lexisnexis.co.nz;
Mulholland, RD, Introduction to the New Zealand Legal System, Tenth edition
(Wellington Butterworths, 2001);
A law dictionary such as Spiller, P, Butterworths New Zealand Law Dictionary, Sixth
edition (Wellington: Butterworths 2005);
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Landonline search procedures available at http://www.linz.govt.nz/land/landonline.
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Definition
Landonline refers to the Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) online database that
provides land professionals with secure access to New Zealand’s only authoritative
titles register and digital cadastre.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Describe patterns of New Zealand land settlement.
Evidence requirements
1.1
The description outlines the pattern resulting from the acquisition and alienation
of land under Crown Colony government.
1.2
The description outlines the pattern resulting from provincial government land
policies up to 1876.
1.3
The description outlines the patterns resulting from land reform policies after the
Land Act 1892.
Range
includes but is not limited to – development of closer settlement
policies.
Outcome 2
Describe influences of land settlement and legislation on land title.
Evidence requirements
2.1
The description outlines the relationship between the closer settlement policies
of the 19th century and modern legislation.
2.2
The description outlines the role of the Commissioner of Crown Land in
accordance with the Land Act 1948.
2.3
The description outlines the classification and alienation of Crown Land in
accordance with the Land Act 1948.
2.4
The description outlines the requirements for Crown Land subdivision and
alienation under the Resource Management Act.
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Outcome 3
Outline the New Zealand legislative process with reference to the development of land law.
Evidence requirements
3.1
The outline explains features of the New Zealand parliamentary system in terms
of their relation to New Zealand land law.
Range
3.2
features – cabinet decisions, advisory committees, drafting of
legislation, passage of legislation.
The outline identifies land legislation and laws relating to land development and
explains their influence on the New Zealand survey and title system.
Outcome 4
Identify and describe New Zealand land registration systems with reference to survey
practice.
Range
principle of leasehold, freehold, rights and land tenure, guaranteed titles, limited
titles, deeds land, cross leases.
Evidence requirements
4.1
The Torrens system of registration of titles is identified in terms of the three
principles.
Range
principles – mirror, curtain, insurance.
4.2
The state guarantee of title system and the roles of the Surveyor-General and
the Registrar-General of Lands in relation to it are described in accordance with
the Cadastral Survey Act.
4.3
The land registry system and its procedures are identified and described in
accordance the Cadastral Survey Act.
4.4
Crown land and Māori land ownership are described in accordance with New
Zealand land law.
4.5
Estates in land and title to land are described in accordance with New Zealand
land law.
Range
description includes definitions for – deeds title, limited title, unit
title, cross-lease title, leasehold title, fee simple title, composite
title;
may include – fee simple strata title.
Outcome 5
Outline the Cadastral Survey Act and legislation with reference to land titles.
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Evidence requirements
5.1
The survey requirements and processes necessary to provide a land owner with
security of title are identified in accordance with the Land Transfer Act 1952.
5.2
The outline describes the process by which the relationship between the
documented title and the parcel of land is guaranteed.
Outcome 6
Describe procedures for establishing the status and title of land.
Evidence requirements
6.1
The description outlines the process for locating and searching documentary
evidence of the status of land in accordance with Landonline procedures.
6.2
The description outlines the process for searching Crown Grants in accordance
with Landonline procedures.
6.3
The description outlines the process for searching leases and licences in
accordance with Landonline procedures.
6.4
The description outlines the process for title searching in accordance with
Landonline procedures.
Outcome 7
Describe land ownership.
Evidence requirements
7.1
The description identifies and outlines the requirements for Certificates of Title
in accordance with the Land Transfer Act.
7.2
The description identifies and outlines the requirements for memorials in
accordance with the Land Transfer Act, the Public Works Act, and the Resource
Management Act.
Range
7.3
memorials – mortgages, easements, proclamations, compensation
certificates covenants, gazette notices, consent notices.
The description explains land ownership in terms of deeds titles before the Land
Transfer Act.
Outcome 8
Demonstrate knowledge of statutory taking or acquisition of land for public purposes.
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Evidence requirements
8.1
The description identifies legislation pertaining to the acquisition of land for
public purposes.
acquisition by – compulsory taking of land, acquisition of land by
agreement, dedication and vesting of land, compensation for land
acquired, stopping of roads, disposal of land no longer required,
disposal of stopped roads.
Range
Planned review date
31 December 2020
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
30 January 1997
31 December 2017
Revision
2
10 December 1997
31 December 2017
Revision
3
8 October 1998
31 December 2017
Revision
4
7 June 2000
31 December 2017
Revision
5
19 July 2004
31 December 2017
Review
6
25 February 2008
31 December 2017
Review
7
21 April 2016
N/A
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