readily computed. The factory workers actually living on the premises before the clearance have to be registered and screened, and arrange- ments to be made to offer them accommodation in estates not too far distant from the factory.
121. Though all the units in the factory had not been let by the end of the year under review it was considered that the construction of further factories on the same basic design would be fully justified, and that these should incorporate certain modifications resulting from experience gained at Cheung Sha Wan. Plans are therefore going ahead for the inclusion of one factory building in each of the new estates planned for Jordan Valley and Chai Wan.
CHAPTER X
THE CONTROL OF SQUATTERS
122. The Resettlement Department is responsible for preventing the erection of new squatter huts, and new extensions to existing huts, either on hillsides, streets and lanes or on the rooftops of tenement buildings. This work is carried out by the Squatter Control and Rooftop Squatter Prevention Sections of the Department, whose authority rests on the Emergency (Squatter Clearance) Regulations, 1953. In these Regulations the following definition of a squatter structure is given:
(a) Any temporary or permanent structure or part thereof erected
or maintained:
(i) without lawful authority on Crown land,
(ii) otherwise than in accordance with the terms of the lease or
permit on land held on lease or permit from the Crown, (iii) without the authority of the lessee or permittee on land held
on lease or permit from the Crown,
(iv) without the approval of the building authority in cases where
such approval is required, or
(v) by a squatter;
(b) any cave or tunnel occupied by a squatter or other person without
lawful authority.
123. 'New squatter huts' mean, when referring to squatting on the hillsides and in the streets and lanes, those structures which were erected after October, 1954. At that time a series of aerial photographs was taken of the areas patrolled, and a public announcement was made that no new squatter structures would be tolerated and that any that
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