C
(ii)
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Departmental quarters are allocated by the Head of Department to certain officers who by the nature of their duties are required to live in a particular place, e.g. some docters, Inspectorate rank (and some Gazetted rank) officers in the Police Force and some officers of the Tisons Department. Any officer may be required to live in a particular area or in a particular quarter.
A private tenancy may be arranged by direct negotiation between the officer and the landlord of the premises if a private tenancy is approved the Hong Kong Govern- ment will reimburse the officer with the cost of rent and rates within certain limits, subject to the rent being considered reasonable. If the rent is considered to be too high, reimbursement will be limited to the rent which the Government considers to be reasonable, even if the actual rent asked is within an officer's limit. The limits vary according to an officer's salary and whether he is single, married without children in the Colony or married with children in the Colony. The limits are reviewed periodically and an officer may obtain information about the limit applicable to himself from the quartering Officer, to whom private tenancy proposals are made. Quartering Officer also possesses current lists of flats suitable for letting as private tenancies. Government quarters are available, a proposal for a private tenancy may be refused.
(iii) Government quarters are divided into grades.
The
If
Officers
eligible for quarters are similarly divided into grades according to their salary. By the normal quartering allocation rules an officer is eligible for a quarter of his own grade, one grade higher or one grade lower. Officers of F and G grades may apply for D grade quarters on equal terms with officers of D and E grades. In general an officer without children in the Colony is not eligible for a quarter with three or more bedrooms.
(iv) The rent is charged as a straight 71% of basic salary
except in certain circumstances when an officer is accommodated "out of grade", Rent Flatforms to
determine eligibility for the grades of quarters are as follows :
Substantive salary range
(including expatriation
pay in per month)
15,500 and above
7,701 14,000
Appropriate grade
of quarter
AA A
Rent payable
per month
6,140 7,700
B
5,315 6,139
C
(5,238
-
6,139)
4,217 5,314
CD
(4,027 5,237)
3,542 4,216
D
(3,327 - 4,026)
2,707 3,511
t-j
E
(2,514
3,326)
2,377 2,706
F
(2,177 - 2,513)
1,792 - 2,376 (1,689 - 2,176)
G
74% of salary
(plus expatriation
pay, where applicable)
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