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UDA EAST KILBRIDE
HKA 233/1 NU. Us
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Pension Ref: Your Kef:
AM 295/32 (91)10
M JC Waters Esq
Pa
HMOCS Poliy
For Scczetary for the Civil Service
Government Secretariat
Lower Albert Road
Hong Kong
ODA
Overseas Development Administration
Abercrombie House, Eaglesham Ro East Kilbride, Glasoom (STA KIČA
Direct Line: 0355-84 3581
7243 3591
GTN:
16
August 1992
ODA OFFICERS PENSIONS QUESTIONNAIRE (PDF 93)
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Thank you for your letter of 1 June 1992 addressed to Dave Fish. I sorry that you have had to wait so long for a reply; some of the points that you ralped zoquized a good deal of thought.
Before answering your questions, it may be relevant to explain whic. type of officers in the Hong Kong public service will qualify for STOS. In general we give SPOS to pensioners who had served in Hong Kong if they satisfy the following conditions:
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they were colested for initial appointment. by the Secreta of State or the Crown Agents, or were recruited to a post for which the normal channel of recruitment. would have be either the Colonial Office or the Crown Agents; and
A mem
ware uppolated on overocas termo of service en were of HMOCS, designated for OSAS, or had an entitlement to p leave passages to the UK; and either,
were not born in Hong Kong or a neighbouring territory (Macau, China and Taiwan) with the additional proviso, it
did recruited to a "normal channel" post, that they, a. live in the area, ur, b. lived in the area for less than three years before being appointed, or, c. lived in the area for more than three years before appointment but did whilst employed on terms including paid passages outside area, or d. did not seiile locally on retirement.
had been born in the area, but at the time of their birth their father was there solely because of a post he held o overseas terms.
In cases where an officer was racruited through the Colonial Office the Crown Agents, we would normally have a personal file for that officer and, consequently, we would be able to decide on his or her aligibility for SPOS without asking for a pensions questionnaire to
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