Commissioner of Crown Lands and Survey

The Commissioner of Crown Lands and Survey was a ministerial portfolio in Victoria, Australia.

The departments of the Civil Service previously under the Commissioners' control effectively became sub-departments of the Board.

While there was clearly an intent to achieve consolidation, the extent to which the sub-departments were administratively integrated following the establishment of the Board in 1857 is uncertain and from late 1858 and the reappointment of a Commissioner of Crown Lands and Survey and a Commissioner of Public Works, the sub-departments were clearly administratively separate.

By 1912 an Immigration and Labour Bureau had been established within the Department of Crown Lands and Survey.

[1] The new department assumed responsibility for all matters relating to survey and mapping, crown lands administration and the Royal Botanic Gardens and National Herbarium from the Department of Crown Lands and Survey.