VII.
Civil Service
- 3
k)
1)
m)
The problem of civil service pensions should be
solved early to ease the minds of civil servants.
The Chinese side had not suggested that the Land Fund
could be used to back up pensions. The Land Fund was
placed in the custody of the CPG and would be handed
to the SARG in 1997 for SARG's free disposal.
over
civil servants, though serving the British administration, were serving the people of
Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong and should political
discrimination
stay beyond 1997.
n)
The
o)
p)
therefore not be subject to
and they were encouraged to
Chinese Government appreciated that civil
servants had their own considerations in applying for
the right of abode in the U.K. under the British
Nationality Scheme. Those who had obtained right of abode in the U.K. would be allowed to occupy the
senior posts with right of abode restriction if they
renounced their British citizenship.
Promotion of civil servants was a matter within the
autonomy of the SARG.
Expressed concern with the pace of localisation for
the Legal Department.