Registrar-Generals-Department-Annual-report-1972-1973 — Page 7

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PART I

SUMMARY

Functions

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 Commercial Bank, Limited, which is on the 6th floor of the West Wing of the Central Government Offices. The Companies Registry is on the 9th, 10th and 11th floors of Kayamally Building, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, and the Trade Marks and Patents Registries are on the 16th floor of Melbourne Plaza, Queen's Road Central, having moved to this address on 2nd January 1973. 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 Com- mercial 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, 13 Solicitors, two Senior Assistant Registrars, 49 Assistant Registrars, one Senior Executive Officer, two Executive Officers and 341 other officers. There was also a super- numerary staff of one Solicitor, 17 Assistant Registrars and 72 other officers. Table I shows how this staff, permanent and supernumerary,

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