CODE 18-77

Reference.

Arrangements etc) are no longer really applicable in Hong Kong's case. However, it would be quite an onerous task to decide which of the CRS should be included and how to go about organising those regulations which are still needed. If you think that the idea is a plausible one, do you think that it would be possible to deal with all the provisions relating to, for example, Appointments, Acting Appointments, Seniority, Salaries and Allowances in one general clause stating that the Secretary of State has empowered the Governor to make local regulations relating to these matters and they are included in the HKG's CSRs? Or do you think that it would still be necessary to set down the provisions relating to such areas as they appear in the CRS at present, but excluding all those paragraphs which are now irrelevant?

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Bridget Paris

Hong Kong Department

WH303

2702652

16 July 1993

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CONFIDENTIAL

GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT

LOWER ALBERT ROAD

HONG KONG

2 June 1993

N.C.G. Whitney, Esq.

By fax

Hong Kong Department

HKA 025/1

Foreign and Commonwealth office

LAUG 1993

Dear Nigel,

Colonial Regulations

Colonial

I had some correspondence with Bridget Paris à little while ago about the reprinting of Regulations. We supplied copies of the various Hong Kong additions in recent years. The aim being to eventually incorporate all these amendments into the reprint ordered by

WIAD.

We have subsequently given some further thought to this subject and the way forward. Basically there are presently three "types" of Colonial Regulations applicable to Hong Kong.

(a)

those such as the new CR 93 (direction to retire under a compensation scheme) which will lapse when Colonial Regulations lapse in 1997 and do not need to be replicated in local SARG legislation or regulations;

(b)

those such as the Disciplinary Regulations which will need to be included in new SARG legislation or regulations so that they will continue beyond 1997; and

(C)

those covering appointment which are already also

and promotion spelt out in our

Our

following lines

(a)

Civil Service Regulations (CSRS) and which

will survive 1997 as CSRs.

thoughts are now more or less along the

we would like to have separate "HK

the word Regulations"

Colonial is not

perhaps ideal at this stage;

(b)

we

wish

Regulations

to eliminate all Colonial which are already catered for in

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GOVERMENT HOUSE HONG KONG.

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(c)

our CSRS or which are antiquated, redundant or misleading and which might lead the Chinese to think that we need to seek approval for matters which we have been doing ourselves for decades; and

1

apart from CR 93, which will lapse in 1997 we thus envisage Regulations covering discipline and little else.

I appreciate that members of HMOCS will remain under the ultimate authority of the Secretary of State until 30 June 1997 and that we shall need to have regard to this point until then.

However I should be grateful for your advice on

possibility of localising "HK Colonial covering largely disciplinary matters as set out

Regulations"

above.

the

your age

Thike

(M.J.C. Waters)

for Secretary for the Civil Service

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