Registrar-Generals-Department-Annual-report-1970-1971 — Page 9

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, Ice House Street, 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 Com- mercial 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 Department is organized in 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 Reg- istrar General, three Assistant Registrars General, each in charge of a Division, four Senior Solicitors, thirteen Solicitors, two Senior Assist- ant Registrars, forty-four Assistant Registrars, one Senior Executive Officer, two Executive Officers and 302 other officers. There was also a supernumerary staff of one Solicitor, seventeen Assistant Registrars and forty-one other officers. Table I shows how this staff, permanent and supernumerary, totalling 431 officers, was distributed among the various Branches of the Department on 31st March 1971, and gives also the actual strength of the Department on that date. Table II lists the senior staff of the Department during the year.

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