Compensation Arrangements for HMOCS
11.
Agreement on future of Hong Kong provides satisfactorily for
continuity of service by serving officers in the public service in
Hong Kong, on terms and conditions, including pay and pensions, no
less favourable than 30 June 1997. The se provisions apply to
members of Her Majesty's Overseas Civil Service (HMOCS) serving in
Hong Kong as well as to other civil servants. Resumption of
sovereignty over Hong Kong by the People's Republic of China raises
similar issues in respect of HMOCS a s independence has in other
dependent territories. Not possible, however, to define now, 11 and
a half years in advance of constitutional change, all the arrangements which will apply to members of HMOCS serving in Hong Kong to payment of their pensions by the Hong Kong Government after
1 July 1997.
The Government accept that we should aim in
consultation with the Hong Kong Government to achieve suitable
compensation arrangements
for members of the overseas civil service
and other pensionable overseas civil servants affected by the
agreement.
Nationality
Hong Kong nationality order in council debated in House
12.
16 January.
March.
Will be
on
further opportunity to discuss probably in