Registrar-Generals-Department-Annual-report-1969-1970 — Page 7

PART I

Functions

SUMMARY

THE Registrar General's Department comprises the Land Office, the Companies, Trade Marks, Patents, Marriage, and Births and Deaths Registries, and the Offices of the Official Receiver in Bankruptcy and Companies Winding-up, the Official Trustee and the Official Solicitor in Lunacy. The Land Office and the Offices of the Official Trustee and the Official Solicitor in Lunacy are, with the Headquarters of the Department, located on the 11th floor of the Central Government Offices, West Wing, Lower Albert Road, Victoria. The Office of the Official Receiver is located on the 10th floor of Sutherland House, Chater Road, Victoria, except for the unit dealing with the liquidation of The Canton Trust and Commercial Bank, Limited, which is on the 6th floor of the West Wing of the Central Government Offices. The Companies, Trade Marks and Patents Registries are on the 9th, 10th and 11th floors of Kayamally Building, Queen's Road Central, Victoria. The locations of the Marriage and Births and Deaths Registries are given in Parts VIII and IX relating to these Registries.

Organization and Staff

2. The two Divisions of the Department were reorganized with effect from 1st April 1969 into three Divisions, namely the Land Office; the Official Receiver's Office, which includes the Offices of the Official Trustee and the Official Solicitor in Lunacy; and the Commercial and Personal Division, which comprises all other branches. At the end of the year the establishment of the Department consisted of the Registrar General, three Assistant Registrars General, each in charge of a Division, four Senior Solicitors, thirteen Solicitors, two Senior Assistant Registrars, forty-two Assistant Registrars, one Senior Execu- tive Officer, two Executive Officers and 291 other officers. There was also a supernumerary staff of one Solicitor, one Assistant Solicitor, eight Assistant Registrars and twenty-four other officers. Table I shows how this staff, permanent and supernumerary, totalling 393 officers, was distributed among the various Branches of the Department on 31st March 1970, and gives also the actual strength of the Department on

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