Section 19

On completion of a cadastral land survey, the survey plan of which is to be lodged with the Land and Survey Department, Sarawak, the land surveyor who prepares and signs the survey plan thereof shall lodge such plan together with the relevant field books, calculation sheets and survey data with the Land and Survey Department,

Sarawak and all such documents shall, if such plan is approved by the

Director or any other officer authorized by him to approve the same on his behalf, become the property of the Government and shall be filed as permanent survey records.