BRITISH NATIONALITY (HONG KONG) SELECTION SCHEME
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS.
Annex
Flexibility between groups and classes.
1.
Under-subscription has occurred SO far amongst private sector "managers and administrators" (one of the groups in the
General Occupational Class (GOC)) by about 3,800 places, and the
police (one of the groups in the Disciplined Service Class (DSC))
by some 34 places. There is also concern that the number of
qualified candidates in the Sensitive Service Class (SSC) and
Entrepreneurs Class (EC) will be smaller than the quota. The
intention is to provide in the Order in Council for places to be
transferred to categories where they will be used. It is
envisaged that any transfers between groups and/or classes would
take place in a one-off exercise on a date to be specified by the
Governor (ie. before completion of the processing of applications
in the relevant group or class but after the Hong Kong Government
has established the size of the unused quota).
New quotas
It is intended to set new quotas for the individual groups
which will take into account not only their emigration rate, as
before, but also their application rate in the first tranche.
The object is to enable more places to be made available to groups where competition was keen in the first phase and fewer places where groups showed less interest. (Half of the quota
would be distributed by reference to emigration rates and half
by reference to previous response rates.) The practical effect would be that "managers and administrators" would lose places and
"accountants and auditors", amongst others, would gain. In the
DSC, the Army and Immigration Service would benefit most from the
places diverted from the police.
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