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the GAS. Over 70% of the available places would be allocated under this Section, and it would cover people from a wide range of walks of life who had a key role in maintaining the prosperity and successful administration of Hong Kong. They would come from
seven broad areas of work:
Business and management
Accounting and financial services
Engineering
Information services
Medicine and science
Law
Education.
17. For the purposes of the detailed administration of the GAS,
these seven groups would be sub-divided into 20 Occupational
categories. These categories are based on groupings specified by the International Standard Classification of Occupations and are used for certain other statistical purposes in Hong Kong,
notably the collection and analysis of emigration data.
Emigration data are important because of the need to
to give priority under the citizenship scheme to those occupational categories suffering the greatest proportional losses. The places available under the GAS would therefore be divided among the occupational categories according to a formula based on the number of people in each category and their emigration rate over the past three years.
18.
Within the first tranche of the GAS, there would be a small
residual category of 500 places for people with technical skills and professional qualifications who were performing functions
which were essential to the continued successful administration
of Hong Kong up to 1997 but who did not fall within the
occupational groups specified as being "key" for the purposes of
the Scheme.
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