Together, We Fight the Virus!

To reduce the risk of the spread of the COVID-19 virus, the Government announced on 28 January 2020 that except for staff of the departments providing emergency services and essential public services, all other employees of the Government would work from home after the Lunar New Year holidays. Hence, emergency closure of the Land Registry offices was arranged from 29 to 31 January 2020. Thereafter, the Land Registry has endeavoured and managed to provide full range of services, albeit on a limited scale, under the special work arrangement. Following the announcement made by the Government on 28 April 2020 that public services would resume under a phased approach, the opening hours of all Land Registry offices have returned to normal starting from 4 May 2020.

We have also implemented various precautionary measures including enhancing the cleansing of our offices, installing acrylic shielding screens at our service counters, providing alcohol hand sanitisers and sanitising mats.

Besides, customers are encouraged to conduct land searches through the Land Registry online search service (www.iris.gov.hk), use the Drop-in Box as much as possible and visit our offices only if they require services urgently.

The Secretary for Development visited our Customer Centre on 2 March 2020 and noted the implementation of targeted measures to reduce social contact and measures for infection control to protect the health and safety of our staff as well as members of the public.