This Act concerns the activities of surveyors in Queensland, it establishes and regulates the operation of the Surveyors Board of Queensland, defines the obligations related to the practice of the profession and provides for the registration of surveyors.

This Act concerns the registration of qualified valuers. i.e. persons ready to make a valuation of land. Under the Act, the Valuers Registration Board of Queensland established under the Valuers Registration Act 1965 is continued in existence and its operation further regulated. The Act is divided into the following Parts: Preliminary; the Board; Registration; Complaints and discipline; Miscellaneous; Transitional provisions for Valuers Registration Act 1992 and Transitional provisions for Valuers Registration Amendment Act 2001.

This Act provides for the construction and repair of dividing fences, i.e. a fence separating the adjoining lands of different owners, whether the adjoining lands are wholly or only partly separated thereby and whether the fence is on the line of or, in an appropriate case, on a line on the common boundary of the adjoining lands or on a line other than the line of or a line on the common boundary, or partly on any one of those lines and partly on the other or others (sect. 6).