G.F. 341
HONG KONG GOVERNMENT
MEMORANDUM ON
CONDITIONS OF SERVICE FOR OVERSEAS OFFICERS
1. TERM OF ENGAGEMENT
(1)
An appointment is for a period of resident service as stated in the letter offering the appointment or, in the case of re-engagement, offering the further employment, plus earned vacation leave.
(ii) Resident service for the purpose of the term of agreement,
period of probation and tour of duty will count from the date of the officer's arrival in Hong Kong or assumption of duty if appointed locally.
(iii) The appointment will cease, in the case of an officer
appointed on agreement, on the date of expiry of any
· leave granted in respect of his tour of resident service.
(iv) If in the case of a agreement officer, the tour of resident
service provided for by his previous agreement was reduced but full passages were provided, the subsequent tour of resident service shall be extended by a period equivalent to the period by which the previous tour was reduced.
2.
GENERAL CONDITIONS OF SERVICE
(1) The duties of the officer include the usual duties of the
office in which he is engaged, and any other duties which · his Head of Department or the Colonial Secretary may call upon him to perform. Such duties may include the training and instruction of other officers. Officers may be required When before taking up their appointments or at any time during
their service to attend prescribed courses of instruction.
(ii) The working week for the officer is normally 5 days, the
normal hours of work being from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. from Monday to Friday with one hour for lunch and 9 a.m, to 1 p.m. on Saturday. In addition to Sundays there are approximately 17 gazetted public holidays in a year. ...
(iii) The officer shall not, either directly or indirectly, engage
or be concerned in any other service or business whatsoever or receive commissions or profits of any kind, but shall devote the whole of his time and attention to the service of the Government, and shall use his utmost exertions to prometa the interests of the Government.
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