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c)
a Disciplined Services Scheme (DSS) also based on a
points system; and
a Sensitive Services Scheme (SSS) under which persons
Occupying particularly sensitive posts would be
nominated for citizenship.
7. Details of each component are set out below. In brief, a
separate quota is proposed for the disciplined services because
the general allocation scheme, which is designed to give priority
to groups with high emigration rates, would afford them only a
small number of places. Staff in these services are not
emigrating in significant numbers, but they are resigning to take
up less exposed occupations, or ones where the opportunities for
emigration are higher. Their role in the fun up to 1997 is
vital, and a separate scheme, offering a reasonable number of
assurances, is justified. The sensitive service scheme requires
a totally different method of selection from the points systems which will operate
operate elsewhere, and has therefore also been
separated out from the main scheme.
Eligibility
8. The intention remains that eligibility for consideration
under the Scheme will be restricted to those holding British
nationality (see paragraph 5 of Annex A). Included in this
category are British Overseas Citizens, British Protected Persons
and British Subjects whose stay in Hong Kong is not subject to
any conditions or who have applied for BDTC status before the
date of the Bill's enactment.
9.
The Foreign Secretary and I think it right that eligibility should be extended to include Certificate of Identity (CofI)
holders who, although not yet British nationals, have applied for
BDTC status by the date of the Bill's enactment. A significant
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