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a whole, were, therefore, to be the principles and practices appropriate to an industrial civil service. Subsequently, in 1973, a Government Committee, which was appointed to examine the proposal for an industrial civil service, recommended that it should not be created. Instead the Committee proposed that Model Scale 1 officers should be brought within a unified civil service and attached to the occupational classes established by the 1971 Commission. In the event, neither the 1971 Commission's proposal for an industrial civil service nor the Government Committee's proposal for a unified civil service was implemented.
49.
While a comprehensive examination of the civil service salary structure must await its second review, the Commission would be grateful for views on what, if any, special principles and practices should be applied to Model Scale 1 officers. For example in recent years steps have been taken to reduce the differences in the conditions of service of Model Scale 1 officers and Master Pay Scale officers. The question arises, therefore, whether the long term objective should be to eliminate such differences altogether, or whether the work of Model Scale 1 officers and the circumstances of their employment are such as to justify their remaining a completely separate group within the civil service with their own salary scale and conditions of service. It has been suggested that many Model Scale 1 staff are not particularly interested in the existing kinds of pension and Widows and Children's pension schemes and might be more attracted by a Provident Fund Scheme.
50.
X The Disciplined Services
The "Disciplined Services" (The Customs and Excise Services, the Fire and Ambulance Services, the Immigration Services, the Royal Hong Kong Police Force and the Prisons Service) are a separate group within the civil service. Officer ranks serve on the Master Pay Scale but the rank and⚫ file have their own pay scales unrelated to the Master Pay Scale. Because the principle of fair comparison and other criteria governing civil service pay have only limited relevance to this group their salary structure is determined by other means.
51.
Pay scales for the disciplined services are based on a formula, commonly referred to as the "Willink Formula", which provides that the minimum and maximum pay for recruitment ranks should be set by taking the minimum of Model Scale 1 and the maximum of segment 3 of Model Scale 1 and applying percentage increases to take account of the special nature of duty in a disciplined service. The factors presently recognised by the "Willink formula" include :-
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