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Hong Kong Department
30 March 1990 HKB €31/4
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HONG KONG: OVERSEAS SERVICE PENSIONERS
Mr Fish ODA
ASSOCIATION
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1. The Overseas Service Pensioners' Association (OSPA) has written
to Mr Maude about whether a General Compensation Scheme will be
introduced and about reduced promotion prospects for expatriates in
view of the Basic Law requirements and localisation.
They have
referred to a letter Mr Maude sent to Mathew Taylor MP on 21 August
1989.
2.
I attach a draft reply which has been cleared with Hong Kong,
the ODA and Legal Advisers.
3. The main issue in the letter is the question of whether a
classic General Compensation Scheme, allowing for early retirement
in 1997 of members of Her Majesty's Overseas Civil Service (HMOCS),
if they wish to.
4. Our aim in Hong Kong has been to encourage HMOCS members to
remain in the Civil Service after 1997. To do this, we have
concluded that we should not offer early retirement as an option.
Instead, we would give some limited compensation in 1997; and
further annual payments for up to nine years thereafter
those who remain on.
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5. Precedence is on the side of the OSPA: in previous cases where
colonies have moved to independence, HMOCS members have been offered
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