The acronym DLS refers to the Department of Lands and Surveys, which pertains to the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Cyprus and includes its Headquarters, all of the District Land Offices and their sub-offices, the Branches, as well as any other Service of the Department. The DLS, as the competent department for handling many different issues, including tenure, registration and valuation, transfer, mortgage and encumbrance of immovable property, cartography, surveying, geodesy, hydrography and photogrammetrical surveying, keeps records with personal data, such as: (1) Records of land information (2) The record of general prohibitions and encumbrances (3) The record of alien owners of immovable property (4) The record of power of attorneys The records concern the owners of immovable property, persons with rights on immovable property, mortgage creditors and debtors, natural persons subject to prohibition, foreigners who acquired immovable property in any way, principals and their representatives.