were discovered would be immediately demolished without any offer of resettlement being made to the occupants. In the case of squatter structures erected on the rooftops of tenement houses, the operative date is November, 1956 when a survey of all structures on the roofs of tenement houses in the urban areas was made. It was announced on completion of the survey that no new unauthorized structures would be tolerated on the roofs of tenement houses, and any persons then living in any structure on the rooftop of a tenement house were strongly urged to find alternative accommodation.
124. These regulations are enforced by the Squatter Control and Rooftop Squatter Prevention Sections, which are under the general supervision of a Land Bailiff. The Squatter Control Section has three Settlement Supervisors, who took over these posts from Land Bailiffs in February, 1958, and whose respective districts are Hong Kong Island; the eastern part of Kowloon and New Kowloon as far as Lei Yue Mun; and the western part of Kowloon and New Kowloon together with the Kwai Chung and Tsuen Wan districts of the New Territories as far as Sham Tseng on the Castle Peak Road. These districts are subdivided into patrol areas, each under the charge of an Area Officer, with two or three patrolmen.
125. It is the aim of these officers to detect new squatter structures while they are being built, whereupon the structures are summarily demolished; but in most cases these structures are not discovered until they are completed and occupied. The Area Officers then serve notice on the occupants to remove the structures by a certain date and, if this notice is not complied with, the Squatter Control Demolition Unit, under the charge of an Area Officer, is called upon to demolish the structures and confiscate the materials of which they are composed.
126. The Rooftop Squatter Prevention Section is organized in the same way, with two Settlement Supervisors, one responsible for Hong Kong Island and the other for the whole of Kowloon and New Kowloon. Under these officers are Area Officers and patrolmen, who are responsible for patrolling their own subdivisions of the urban areas and preventing the erection of any new structures or extensions of existing structures on rooftops.
127. Despite the Regulations continuous attempts are still made to erect new squatter structures and during the course of the year under review notices were served on 4,648 new structures or extensions to existing structures on hillsides or on streets and lanes and on 1,385
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