2.12
The Director of Water Supplies is a member of the Water Resources Development Committee and the Plover Cove Progress Committee.
2.13
The Director of Lands and Survey is a member of the Port Executive Committee and the Container Committee.
2.14
The Director of New Territories Development is Chairman of the Works Committees of the three New Towns of Tuen Mun (Castle Peak), Tsuen Wan/Kwai Chung and Sha Tin and the New Territories rural centres.
2.15
The Director of Mass Transit Studies is a member of the Mass Transit Railway Provisional Authority, the Steering Group on Transportation Studies, and is Chairman of the Land Acquisition Co-ordinating Committee, the Mass Transit Railway Utilities Co-ordinating Committee, the Mass Transit Railway Station and Transport Integration Committee and the Mass Transit Railway Safety and Security Committee.
ACCOUNTING SERVICES DIVISION
Chief Treasury Accountant:
G.P. BLENKINSOP, F.C.A., A.C.I.S.
Organisation
2.16
The role of the Accounting Services Division - Headquarters, in summary, may be described as follows:-
(a) to provide financial management services to the Directorate and other officers in senior management positions;
(b) to provide accounting services to Offices, either directly or through individual accounting service units in departmental Offices;
(c) to act as a clearing house for all departmental expenditure payments, with the exception of the Waterworks, which is a sub-accounting Office;
(d) to exercise financial control over the Public Works Department estimates of revenue and expenditure, and funds voted for commitments under the Defence Costs Agreement;
(e) to ensure, by a financial inspection of audited accounts, that P.W.D. contractors have adequate resources to fulfill their contractual obligations; and
(f) to formulate, in consultation with all Offices, the Department's five year forecast of revenue and expenditure and the annual estimates of revenue and expenditure, for both civil and military works.
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