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Q5 In some previous territories (Brunei) officers had the right to full compensation (not half (or less) as you are proposing) and yet had good guarantees of future employment. Why are HMG not offering this?
A5 Not looking at other schemes see speaking note. But relevant that many other territories had localisation policies, particularly affecting police and administrative grade.
06 Position on improvements to SPOS?
A6 We have received a number of representations from retired HMOCS officers and the Overseas Service Pensioners Association about the operation of SPOS. We are considering whether any amendment to the operation of the rules for calculating it would be appropriate.
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Q7 If an officer has fundamental objection to working for communist government why should: he not be allowed to retire with immediate payment of pension?"
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A7 Do not accept that working for the SARG means working for a communist government. The JD and BL provide that they socialist system and policies shall not be practised in Hong Kong and that the previous capitalist system and way of life shall remain unchanged for fifty years. SAR to enjoy a.... high degree of autonomy: to be vested with executive, legislative and independent judicial power. (JD 7 about SAR being "directly under the authority of the CPG of the PRC" makes an administrative, not political points: it means that the SARG will deal directly with the CPG and not through any provincial government)
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