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MARINE DEPARTMENT LIBRARY

legally only advise the Commissioner for Resettlement. In practice, its advice is generally accepted. It has also become customary for the Commissioner to consult the Select Committees on a wide range of questions. The advice tendered and decisions made by the Committees form a substantial body of "case law" for the guidance of the depart- ment. The more important subjects discussed during the year were:

(i) the new design for future resettlement blocks (Mark V);

(ii) inheritance of tenancies;

(iii) the inauguration of the Appeals Sub-Committee (para. 25); (iv) measures to provide additional and improved electricity supplies

in resettlement factories (para. 96 below);

(v) clearance of pigbreeders and cultivators (para. 41 below);

(vi) increase of certain rents in resettlement estates (para. 19 above); (vii) relief for victims of squatter fires and natural disasters (para. 33

below);

(viii) restaurants in new Resettlement Estates which are not provided with restaurant premises on the ground floor of multi-storey blocks (para. 67 below); and

(ix) a complete survey designed to freeze the commitment for resettlement shops (not implemented by the end of the year).

CHAPTER 3

SQUATTER CONTROL

26. The Squatter Control Sub-Division of the Operations Division is responsible primarily for preventing the erection of new unlawful structures on Crown land, leased land and the rooftops and kitchen rooftops of private residential, commercial and industrial premises within the urban area and in the Tsuen Wan district of the New Territories. It also has other subsidiary duties which are mentioned below. The District Commissioner, New Territories is responsible for squatter control in the New Territories outside Tsuen Wan.

27. For squatter control purposes, the whole area is divided into four districts (Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, Kwun Tong and Tsuen Wan), cach of which is under the charge of a resettlement officer and

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