Resettlement_Department_Annual_Report_1970-1971 — Page 49

CHAPTER 10

ORGANIZATION AND STAFF OF THE RESETTLEMENT

DEPARTMENT AND MISCELLANEOUS

DEPARTMENTAL ORGANIZATION AND GRADES

103. The department had an overall establishment of 5,540 officers as at 31st March, 1971 and is divided into four divisions, the duties of which are broadly as follows:

(a) Estates and Cottage Areas, headed by an Assistant Commis- sioner assisted by two Administrative Officers and a Senior Resettlement Officer, is responsible for the management and administration of the domestic estates and factories and cottage resettlement areas;

(b) Operations, headed by an Assistant Commissioner, who is also responsible for the general administration of the department, comprises two sub-divisions:

(i) Clearance, under an Administrative Officer and Senior Resettlement Officer, which is responsible for the clearance of squatters and other eligible persons into resettlement accommodation;

(ii) Squatter Control, headed by an Administrative Officer, and Senior Resettlement Officer, which is responsible for the control of 'tolerated' unlawful structures and prevention of new ones, for resiting operations and the administration of licensed areas and transit camps and for processing tenants under the rent advance scheme;

(c) Works headed by a Senior Maintenance Surveyor seconded from the Public Works Department, is responsible for maintenance and improvement works in resettlement estates and factories, and cottage and licensed areas, and the preparation of plans of cultivation clearance;

(d) Headquarters, under the Secretary and Treasury Accountant, is responsible for the internal administration of the department. The departmental structure is shown at Appendix 16.

104. There were 17 senior non-departmental posts in the department which are filled by Administrative and Executive Officers, a Treasury

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