12.
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INTERNATIONAL RESETTLEMENT OF THOSE UNWILLING TO
STAY IN HONG KONG
Our firm intention to make the agreement work and create
conditions in which Hong Kong people will want to continue
living and working there.
Hong Kong a flourishing
community. Cannot build with one hand and pull down with
the other.
13.
PENSIONS
The agreement provides that the Government of the
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), will pay all
pensions, gratuities and other benefits due to public
servants and dependants including those who have retired
before 1 July 1997.
14.
COMPENSATION ARRANGEMENTS FOR HMOCS
as
to
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 at 30 June 1997. These provisions apply to members of Her Majesty's Overseas
Civil Service (HMOCS) serving in Hong Kong as well
other civil servants. Resumption of sovereignty over Hong
Kong by the People's Republic of China raises similar issues in respect of HMOCS as independence has in other dependent territories. Not possible, however, to define 11 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.
now,