Former Central Government Offices
The Former Central Government Offices (Chinese: 中區政府合署, also Government Headquarters 政府總部), now is called the Justice Place (律政中心), is an office building complex that formerly housed most of the major offices of the Hong Kong Government. The complex is located in Central, Hong Kong, occupying the lower level of Government Hill. The offices of the government have been relocated to the Main Block of the Central Government Complex, Tamar.
Completed in 1957 by the Government of Hong Kong, it replaced a two-storey colonial complex from the 1930s, old Secretariat Building (built in 1847 and demolished in 1954).
Like City Hall, Hong Kong, the offices were built in the International style.
Until 1985, the Legislative Council of Hong Kong met here and then moved to the old Supreme Court Building.
All major government departments except the Department of Justice are now located at (or moving to) the Central Government Complex, Tamar. The Department of Justice is remained at the former Central Government Offices Main and East Wing , and rename as the 'Justice Place.
The building that formerly housed the offices were actually a complex of three wings with a total of 76,000 square feet (7,100 m2) of offices:
The most familiar wing was the Main Wing, housing offices of the Chief Executive and site of most major protests against the Hong Kong Government (another site is the LegCo). In order to keep protesters who have not applied from entering the complex, a series of fences was erected in 1998 after the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China in 1997.
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