DEPARTMENTAL TITLES

7.23 p.m.

The Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Social Affairs (Mr Chan Chee Seng) (for the Minister for Social Affairs): Mr Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the motion* standing in my Minister's name on the Order Paper.

• The motion reads as follows:

That this Parliament, pursuant to section 3 of the Departmental Titles (Alteration) Ordinance (Chapter 55), resolves that the Schedule to the said Ordinance be amended by the addition under the headings of "Old Title or Name of Office" and "New Title or Name of Office" respectively of the following: -

"Principal Probation Officer. Chief Probation and Aftercare Officer".

The Departmental Titles (Alteration) Ordinance provides for the substitution of new titles or names of officers where there has been a change of departmental title. Section 3 of the Ordinance provides that Parliament may, by resolution, add to or amend the Schedule to the Ordinance. The change of title from "Principal Probation Officer" to "Chief Probation and After-care Officer" is the result of the implementation of the recommendation of the Prisons Inquiry Commission, 1960, wherein the probation service of the Social Welfare Department was reconstituted with effect from 1st January, 1967, as the Probation and Aftercare Department of the Ministry of Social Affairs. The change of title in the Schedule to the Ordinance will enable the powers and duties of the Principal Probation Officer in the Probation of Offenders Ordinance, 1951 (No. 27 of 1951) and other legislation to be exercised by the Chief Probation and Aftercare Officer.

Sir, I beg to move.

Question put, and agreed to.

Resolved,

That this Parliament, pursuant to section 3 of the Departmental Titles (Alteration) Ordinance (Chapter 55), resolves that the Schedule to the said Ordinance be amended by the addition under the headings of "Old Title or Name of Office" and "New Title or Name of Office" respectively of the following: - " Principal Chief Probation and Probation Aftercare Officer". Officer.