Future Plan

(i) Staff Development

To develop our staff to reach their full potential, the Land Registry has formulated plans to arrange officers to attend local executive development programmes and centrally organised training programmes of the Civil Service Bureau in the forthcoming year. Through the development programmes, officers are empowered with competencies and enhanced personal effectiveness to make full and effective contribution to the development of the department.


(ii) Legal Training

To enhance the general and work related legal knowledge of officer grade staff, a custom legal training programme was developed in 2008/09. In the coming year, we will continue our legal study programme with a view to improving participants’ understanding on basic legal concepts and principles so that they will be better equipped for the new challenges ahead with the launch of the title registration system.


(iii) Stress Management

To promote good health and as a caring employer, the Land Registry has regularly organised seminars on mental health, preventive measures on mood disorder and work life balance for staff. In the coming year, we will continue to organise a series of stress management programmes to strengthen staff’s ability to cope with stress and to promote work-life balance. We will also include information of stress management in the departmental staff magazine to raise their awareness on the issue.


(iv) Green Management

The major impact of the Land Registry’s business operation on the environment is the consumption of paper and energy. We instituted a number of paper saving measures in 2008. They include further replacement of reports by soft copies, and promoting wider application of electronic communication and storage of records. We will continue efforts in this aspect to promote the reduction of paper consumption. Separately, the Land Registry has reached agreement with the Hong Kong Association of Banks and Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation on arrangements to allow for filing of standard terms documents. When this is implemented, we will be able to reduce substantially the bulk of mortgage documents required for registration and the associated paper consumption for processing.

We are also exploring with the Architectural Services Department ways to reduce power consumption in our offices. These include the replacement of ceiling lights by task lights in some offices, the use of LED lights in lift lobbies and reduction of lighting along corridors and peripheral areas.