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a)
a
b)
General Allocation Scheme (GAS) covering broad
occupational groups across the public and private sectors and based on a points system;
a Key Entrepreneurs Scheme (KES) under which the
Governor may recommend for citizenship selected
entrepreneurs the extent of whose investments and the
numbers they employ make them invaluable to Hong Kong;
c) a Disciplined Services Scheme (DSS) based on a points
system; and
d)
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. A separate
quota is proposed for the disciplined services because the GAS,
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 run up to 1997 is vital, and a separate scheme, offering
a reasonable number of assurances, is justified. The SSS
requires a totally different method of selection from the points
systems which will operate in the GAS and DSS 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
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