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Present membership:
4 ex-officio members (the ex-
officio members of EXCO apart
from Commander British Forces);
18 nominated members who are
public officers;
27 nominated members who are local
citizens, including some but not
all of the Unofficial members of
EXCO.
Although the 27 members of the Council who are not public
officers are not elected, they at present constitute a
majority in the Council representing the people of Hong Kong
and have been chosen from different interests and sectors
of the community.
The Public Service
8.
The public service (including the judiciary, the
Royal Hong Kong Police Force and the Urban Services Department)
consists of approximately 159,000 public officers, of all
ranks from the grade of labourer upwards; of these 100,500
are permanent and pensionable and the remainder are serving
on contract or other non-pensionable terms. Of these approx-
imately 3,200 are expatriate officers, of whom about 1,000
are members of Her Majesty's Overseas Civil Service or Her
Majesty's Judiciary. Some of these are specifically recruited
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