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HONG KONG: OFFICERS ON EXPATRIATE PENSIONABLE TERMS WHO ARE
NOT MEMBERS OF HM OVERSEAS CIVIL SERVICE (HMOCS)
Problem
1.
Certain expatriate pensionable officers, who are not
members of HMOCS, may try to use precedent and history to
argue that they should be included in any sterling safeguard which HMG may provide.
Recommendation
2.
That we should maintain our policy line that any
arrangements to protect the value of pensions beyond those in
the Joint Declaration (JD) are for members of HMOCS only.
Background
3.
In the course of our discussions preparing for the
next round of the Whitehall battle to provide a sterling
safeguard for the pensions of Hong Kong HMOCS officers,
our Legal Consultant has pointed out that the earlier
practice was to require a former colony to enter into a Public
Officers Agreement (POA) on independence whereby certain
officers, in addition to members of HMOCS, were entitled to
receive their pensions outside the former colony and, in such
sub.pens.ADMIN
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