Malaysia legislation
Section 8
Section 8
Section 14 of the principal Act is amended—
(a)
by renumbering the existing section as subsection (1);
(b)
in subsection (1) as renumbered—
(i)
by substituting for the words “Government Survey
Department” the words “Survey and Mapping
Department Malaysia”;
(ii)
by substituting for the words “field books, calculation sheets and survey data with the Survey Department and all such documents shall” the words “survey records and data with the Survey and Mapping Department Malaysia and such survey plan, survey records and data shall”; and
(iii)
by substituting for the words “the Director General of Survey or other officer appointed by him to approve the same on his behalf” the words
“the Director General of Survey and Mapping, the Director of Survey and Mapping or the Deputy
Director of Survey and Mapping”; and
(c)
by inserting after subsection (1) as renumbered the following subsection:
“(2) On completion of a geomatics survey as may be specified by the Director General of Survey and
Mapping, the geomatics survey plan of which is to be lodged with the Survey and Mapping Department
Malaysia, the licensed land surveyor who signs the geomatics survey plan thereof shall deposit such plan together with the relevant survey records and data with the Survey and Mapping Department Malaysia and such geomatics survey plan, survey records and data shall become the property of the Government and shall be filed as permanent survey records.”.
Amendment of section 15