Surveyors now have to be licensed to operate in Bermuda after new legislation came into effect on June 1. The registration follows the registration of engineers and architects.

Bermuda's 100 or so land suveyors, valuation suveyors, building surveyors, marine surveyors and quantity suveyors cannot call themselves "surveyors" until they register with the Government.

Arthur Jones, real estate director for Coldwell Banker in Bermuda, said: "The council has done an excellent job in producing the code of conduct, setting high standards and a mechanism for measuring the meeting of those standards by surveyors."

Mr. Jones also serves as chairman of the Surveyors Registration Council.

Qualified suveyors can obtain application forms from the Registrar General in the Government Administration Building.