1 What HKILA is and does?2 What advancement has the HKILA achieved?
3 How the HKILA can help its members?
5 How can one become a member of the HKILA?
9 How can an Associate Member or Affiliate Member become M.I.L.A.?
10 What training opportunities would be offered by the HKILA for the young land executives?
11 What is land administration?
12 Who can be called/named land administration specialist?
13 What does the land executive/manager do?
14 What are the principal specialized areas of land administration?
15 Is land administration a prospective career?
16 Who can become a land exeuctive/manager?
17 From where one can receive land administration training?
18 What plans have the HKILA scheduled for land administration professionalism?
19 What major research programs have the HKILA undertaken?
20 Can you tell me something about the ethical codes for Professional Land Administrators?
21 I wish to know more about the HKILA, please let me know to whom I can contact for details?
The Hong Kong Institute of Land Administration was
founded on 4th April 1995. Through its mission for developing,
promoting and maintaining the professional standards of land administration
and management in both public and private sectors of Hong Kong, it aims
to contribute substantially to the promotion of good land management/planning
and, thereby, to the advancement of land use and control upon which the
community and Hong Kong depend.
Since its formation, the Institute has grown consistently
and its members constitute a substantial body of professional expertise.
This expertise will be ultimately available to the general community and
particularly to the students of land administration or young executives
being engaged in land management. These students and young executives are
the professionals of the future, as it is for them in particular and the
practicing professional land managers in general that the Institute has
schemed to publish research papers, journal and literature on land administration
of both academic and professional interest.
The Institute
has developed and maintained the following services and facilities to its
members:
Hong Kong Land Administration Journal. Members will receive regular issues of the Hong Kong Land Administration Quarterly, which publishes and reports articles on practical and professional interests on all aspects of the land managersˇ¦ job and career.
Land Management Literature. The Institute would publish books on land management and the related subjects written by its members. For details, please contact Secretary/Editorial Committee.
Management Software. The Institute has developed and continues to develop land management/general management software for computers. For details, please contact the Secretary of the Science and Research Committee.
Consultation. The Institute will soon form a panel of consultants providing services in the first instance to members on tackling land administration problems. For details, please contact Secretary of the Science and Research Committee.
Library Service. All members are entitled to make full use of the library service. For details, please contact the Secretary of the Science and Research Committee.
Meetings and Conference. The Institute will hold luncheon meetings, seminars and conferences on topical land administration/management and the related interests at regular intervals. This also provides a forum for meeting other professionals in the land administration field.
The Institute has forged close links with the local
land authority (e.g. Lands Department and Planning Department) of the Hong
Kong Special Administrative Region Government; the land authorities of
the provinces, cities, counties and districts of the Mainland and the Peopleˇ¦s
Republic of China State Land Administration of the Central Government and
all major academic and training organizations. It will also maintain strong
links with other professional land administration bodies such as the China
Land Society in order to provide a comprehensive list of contacts for exchange
of views on land administration matters.
HKILA membership is open to all those engaged in or
concerned with land administration/ management or the related specialist
functions such as land management education, land acquisition and development,
legal service on land/landed property conveyance, village housing and development
and those who have undergone the training and gained the relevant experiences
recognized by the Institute.
There are four classes of HKILA membership. Ordinary
Members and Fellows enjoy voting/election rights; whereas Affiliate Members
and Associate Members do not. Ordinary Members and Fellows shall also have
the right to identify themselves to their clients and the general public
as MILA and FILA respectively. All classes of HKILA Members shall have
rights of access to the Institute's services and facilities including professional
supports and library service.
Fellow of the Institute shall have the right in using
the designation of F.I.L.A. to identify his position in the Institute.
It is the highest professional status and title of the Institute given
to those members who have prominently contributed to found, to build, to
strengthen and to expand or to contribute the like that have benefited
the land administration profession . According to the Article and Chapter
Two of the Bylaws of the Institute, Ordinary Members of 10 or more years
of seniority may apply for promotion to Fellows. As a matter of principle,
FILA is a senior land administration practitioner whose knowledge, experience
and skills in the field have been well tested and shall be reliable and
trustworthy.
Ordinary Members of the Institute shall have the privilege
of using the designation of M.I.L.A. An Ordinary Member is a land administration
practitioner whose knowledge and skills are deemed to measure up to the
standards required for a qualified land administration professional. Any
members having MILA membership shall have voting and election rights; using
HKILA's facilities and services; and applying for upgrading to Fellowship
subject to compliance with other requirements.
Any person being engaged in land administration profession
or land administration related activities may apply for Associate Membership
or Affiliate Membership. An Associate Member having possessed requisite
personal qualities, received such training, passed such examination in
land administration and practised land administration for a continuous
period of over 6 years after obtaining such qualification may apply for
upgrading to Ordinary Membership. An Affiliate Member having passed such
examination, received such training as recognized by the Institute and
having possessed requisite personal qualities may apply for upgrading to
Associate Membership or Ordinary Membership subject to approval granted
by the Membership Committee.
The Institute is planning to run courses or research
programmes leading to the award of professional certificate/diploma in
land administration for the young land executives/managers. Seminars, conferences
focusing on subjects related to land administration would also be arranged
by the Institute for the land executives/managers with a view to enhancing
their knowledge and skills necessary for the successful practice of land
administration. The Institute has also engaged actively in negotiations
with the Renmin University in Peking, other universities in Guangdong and
other provinces in China, overseas, and locally, the Hong Kong Polytechnic
University for running first degree or higher degree programmes for members
and young managers engaged in land administration work.
Land administration is the process by which land is
managed and put to good effect as the most basic, vital and valuable resource
that supports human activities and livelihood. It covers all activities
concerned with the administration or management of land as a resource from
economic, social and environmental perspectives. As regards subject matters
of land administration, it would include the processes of formulation and
implementation of land-use policies; monitoring of development or redevelopment
of lands; land/property conveyancing; management of land resources such
as agriculture, forestry, soils, mines, rivers and river-bed, foreshore
and seabed; compilation and maintenance of land records; land use planning;
estate development and management; and monitoring of all activities on
land and buildings erected thereon that may affect the best use of land
as resource that supports human activities and livelihood.
The generic title for such specialists is usually
land manager, land executive or land administrator. Their functions may
be exercised at various levels within an organization, from director ranking
personnel in the boardroom, down to a junior executive supervising a team
of land inspectors dealing with various aspects of land administration.
A land executive/manager responsible for acquisition
of land for development has to deal with purchase or resumption of private
lands; a land executive/manager for lease enforcement has to handle breaches
of leases; a land executive/manager for land control has to tackle illegal
dumping and unlawful occupation of lands; a land executive/manager for
land/property conveyancing has to manage or execute land/property transactions;
a land executive/manager for formulating land use policy has to deal with
land use planning etc. A land executive working in the Hong Kong SAR Government
may have to manage and implement village houses policy (usually known as
Small House Policy).
Land
Acquisition
The acquisition of land for development or redevelopment, for private
or public purposes will be the purviews of land administrators who are
sometimes known as project manager/director. Some land administrators employed
by land developers for purchasing lands are known as project managers or
programme managers.
Land Disposal
Some land administrators are working for their clients in disposing
lands either for short term or long term purposes.
Lease Enforcement
Land administrators may also be responsible for enforcing conditions
of leases or tenancies and for taking those measures that may remedy the
breaches.
Land Registration and Cadastres Management
Cadastral survey, cadastres maintenance and land registration are the
duties of land administration. In view of this the land registrars working
in the land registries should also be regarded as land administrators.
Land Policy and Administration
This is a specialist area and a land administrator concerned with it
is usually a staff of high-ranking manager with high skills in formulating
and creating policy and in actualizing the objectives as defined by that
policy.
Land/Property Planning and Development
This, too is a specialist area and a land administrator concerned with
it uses planning and implementation techniques for achieving the goals
as set by development plans.
Land Control
Land administrators responsible for land control is to manage land against
illegal occupation, unlawful development, illegal dumping, and misuses
of land. Land environmental control, landscape improvement and street management
are also falling within the purviews of land administration.
Land Administration Research and Training
In order to maintain the standards and to advance the knowledge/skills of land administration, some senior land administration professionals are conducting researches for exploring new land management skills and techniques or in conducting training programmes for developing young land managers.
Increasingly so. Today, entrants to the profession
are graduates having studied in colleges or universities on subjects in
land administration, management studies, property management, laws, land
law and property law, Chinese laws, Chinese land law and property law,
geography, geology, land economics, sociology, Chinese beliefs, traditions
& customs, urban and rural planning, land and estate surveying, estate
management, housing management, personnel administration, organizational
behavior, organization and management, human resource management, strategy
management, project management and other related subjects. The increase
of better-educated young managers in land administration has enhanced the
qualities of service rendered to the society. With society endorsement,
more and more career opportunities have been created for the elite land
managers. In view of this, land administration today offers a career path
to both men and women, with prospects of rising to very senior positions
either in organizations or in society.
Entrants to land administration are usually known
as land executives who can climb up the organizational ladder to director
level as they become more experienced. In the past, opportunities were
given to matriculants who entered the profession of land administration
without formal professional training but had earned their specialist status
through years of working experience in the field. By the seventies till
mid eighties, entrants (some were matriculants, some were graduates of
post-secondary colleges or universities) to the profession had to undergo
years of training by attending formal training courses of part-time day
release programme taught by the then Hong Kong Polytechnic (now known as
the Hong Kong Polytechnic University). Today, entrants to the profession
are mostly university graduates in relevant disciplines.
The development of land administration training has been the cardinal principle of the Hong Kong Institute of Land Administration's policy since its formation in 1995. A network of land administration training facilities would be built up in conjunction with colleges and universities locally, in mainland or overseas. Apart from this, the Institute has also striven to organize seminars or research programmes leading to the award of certificate or diploma recognized by the Institute for admission of membership.
Though the MILA title awarded by the HKILA is not a prerequisite to practicing land administration, having regard to the trend towards higher standards of professionalism, the Institute intends to bring land administration on to a truly professional footing.
The Institute, the Renmin University in Peking and
some other China's universities are running land administration courses
leading from certificate to master degree levels. The Institute has also
started discussing with the administration of the Hong Kong Polytechnic
University for resuming the two-year professional certificate program for
junior land executives and degree courses for advanced land managers.
The Professional Development Committee of the Institute
has commenced to draft a development scheme for land administration professionalism.
When it is available, it would be disclosed here.
The Science and Research Faculty of the Institute
is to develop some major research programmes for the years to come. When
they are available, details would be disclosed here.
The Institute is yet to finalize the ethical codes
for Professional Land Administrators, the following statements are the
proposed codes (subject to amendments):
A LAND ADMINISTRATOR SHALL always maintain in highest standards of professional conduct.
A LAND ADMINISTRATOR SHALL , in all forms of land administrative or managerial practice, be dedicated to providing competent service in full professional and moral independence, in the belief that land is the most basic, vital and valuable resource that supports human activities and livelihood.
A LAND ADMINISTRATOR SHALL deal honestly with clients and colleagues, and strive to expose those land administrators deficient in character or competence, or who engage in fraud or deception.
A LAND ADMINISTRATOR SHALL respect the rights of clients, of colleagues, and of other land professionals, and shall safeguard client's confidences.
A LAND ADMINISTRATOR SHALL NOT permit motives of profit to influence the free and independent exercise of professional judgement on behalf of clients.
A LAND ADMINISTRATOR SHALL NOT permit considerations of social standing, wealth, party politics, religion, race or nationality to intervene between his duty and his clients.
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