IN
CONFIDENCE
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6.
are
committed to continue in the service of the
SARG, the proportion of the total entitlement which is paid in each year could increase to
reach a peak in the final year.
It is intended to fix as the base for
calculating payments the salary as at 1 January 1992 of the rank point in which the officer is serving on 30 June 1997 converted into sterling at the average exchange rate for
the derived base value could be adjusted
account of the movement of the UK retail
1991.
annually
However
to
take
price index.
7.
It is
misapprehension
important that there should be no that the arrangements to be made for HMOCS officers will in anyway affect the duty of those officers to give their full loyalty to the HKG up to 30 June 1997 and to the government of the Hong Kong SAR thereafter.
8.
We are ensuring that this statement is given a
wide distribution to those officers who have an interest in it. We should be grateful to receive any written comments
on the proposal outlined above by 24
We then April.
envisage that a small team of officials should visit Hong Kong in the week beginning 4 May in order to discuss points arising with representatives of the Association of members of HMOCS in Hong Kong. Thereafter we hope to
announce decisions
on
the
details of the scheme early in
June.
IN CONFIDENCE