CONFIDENTIAL
3
General
on
Compensation
Scheme
involves permission to retire
pension in 1997 with a degree of compensation (20%).
The remainder of the compensation to be paid to officers as
inducement to stay on after 1997 for a period of 8
years. Details have been the subject of discussion between
HK Government and the FCO and between the latter and HM
an
the
Treasury.
HMOCS Association
Annex 1
4.
In
May 1991 individual officers initiated action
to form an HMOCS Association. Two founder representatives
the Secretary for the Civil Service (SCS), with a
copy to Mr. Alan Paul, HKD FCO asking for a firm HMG
that HMOCS officers would be permitted to retire.
wrote to
commitment
on pension with compensation in 1997. They requested a
substantive
"bankable
reply in the very near future in the form of a
A copy of this letter is at
assurance".
Annex 1. A copy of their Speaking Note, used in presenting
Annex 2 the letter, is at Annex 2.
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