block which, by increasing the depth of all but the largest size of room, would enable allocations to be made at about 35 square feet per adult except for households in excess of seven adults, and at an additional cost of less than 6%. Secondly, having reviewed the likely commitments under the various priority categories for resettlement set out in the White Paper of 1964, the board concluded that, over the six year period ending 31st March, 1972, it would be necessary to provide 664,000 individual units of accommodation of 24 or 35 square feet. Allowing that some of those qualifying for accommodation in resettle- ment estates under the rent advance scheme for tenants of buildings declared to be dangerous, as well as some residents of cottage areas that may have to be cleared for permanent development, would be willing and able to pay the higher rents charged for Government Low Cost Housing, the board suggested that about 30,000 units should be trans- ferred to that latter type of housing, and that, with an allowance for contingencies, the resettlement building programme should be set at 650,000 individual units for the six year period 1966-72. At the same time, they proposed that the programme for Government Low Cost Housing should be raised from the previous figure of 170,000 to 350,000 individual units of accommodation over the same period. Government was studying these recommendations at the end of March.
21. Two important events of the year for the department were the move of its main headquarters and the introduction of revised conditions of service for certain departmental grades, allied with a training programme. Both these developments are mainly attributable to the very rapid expansion of the department in recent years. They are dealt with more fully in paragraphs 145 and 149.
CHAPTER 2
CONSTITUTIONAL
LEGISLATION
22. The legal powers of the Resettlement Department derive from the Resettlement Ordinance Cap. 304 and Regulations made thereunder, which replaced the Emergency Regulations previously in force. The Ordinance defines a squatter as 'any person who occupies any land without lawful authority or without the consent of the person entitled to the beneficial occupation of such land', and goes on to define an unlawful structure. The main provisions of Part II of the Ordinance
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