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Secretary for the Civil Service
You ask
Police
(a) whether there is any means by which
can released from their oath of office
Officers
(b)
in 1997; and
if not, whether they have any claim to compensation or abolition of office terms.
I advise as follows
2.
(a)
Release from Oath of Office
G. F. 82
an
It is important to remember that it is
oath of office with which we are concerned. It is not an Oath of Allegiance as is prescribed in the Oaths and Declarations Ordinance (Cap 11). What in effect the police officers are required to provide by s 26 and the Schedule to the
Ordinance (Cap 232) is expression of their committment to their employer in relation to their service as a police officers.
At
is cmployer
the Crown.
Police
Force
present
the
-
30 June 1997 the employer will be the HKSARG.
an
After
Article 99 of the Basic Law provides, inter
alia, that -
Public servants must be dedicated to
their duties and be responsible to the
Government of the Hong Kong
Administrative Region."
Special