Section 4: Functions of the Council

The Council is hereby charged with the general duty of-(a) determining who are surveyors for the purposes of this Act;
(b) determining what standards of knowledge and skill are to be attained by persons seeking to become registered as members of the profession of surveying (in this Act referred to as "the profession") and reviewing those standards, from time to time, as circumstances may require;
(c) securing, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, the establishment and maintenance of a register of persons entitled to practice the profession and the publication, from time to time, of lists of such persons;
(d) regulating and controlling the practice of the profession in all its ramifications;
(e) maintaining, in accordance with this Act, discipline within the profession; and
(f) performing the other functions conferred upon the Council by this Act.