A.

NEGOTIATING BRIEF, ANNEX I

HKA 233/1

Further issues to be resolved under paragraph 3 of Draft Negotiating Brief:

vii) the question of duplication between the HKG scheme and HMG scheme: see note 1 below;

viii) what happens under the HMG scheme when an officer is subsequently superceded: see note 2

below.

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policy.

xi) what happens when an officer who continues to serve dies, or is retired on medical grounds, on abolition of office, in the public interest or for the purpose of facilitating improvements in the organization of the public service: see note 3

below.

x) should there be a re-calculation of (inducement) instalments if the UK RPI rises by the time the instalment is due: see note 4 below.

xi) what is the position of judges who are excluded from the HK Limited Compensation Scheme but do not have a scheme of their own: see note 5 below.

NOTE 1

Under the HLG scheme:

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No duplication

- an officer who retires because it is unreasonable for him to continue in service, in the inertest of localisation, to facilitate constitutional change, or in the interest of the development of the public service sub-paras b, c, d and e of para 2 of the scheme) is:

retired on immediate

earned pension, irrespective of length of service or having reached retirement age;

entitled to compensation, calculated at the higher rate, which is paid in one lump sum on his retirement.

- an officer who is superceded (sub-para a of para 2) is:

entitled to compensation, calculated at the lower rate, which is paid in one lump sum as soon as possible after he is superceded or, if he retires, on his retirement;

may with the Governor's permission retire, when he is entitled to receive from the date of his

retirement the commuted fraction

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