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Governor: We've been trying to make efforts to implement the agreement and we will do so as rapidly as possible. We've recently had problems which you will know because of the message which has been sent I think to people in the camps from speeches and decisions made in the US Congress, the point that I made very much earlier. But it remains our urgent objective to be able to achieve the figure for repatriation which was agreed in Geneva. That agreement was a very important one for Hong Kong. It was the result I think of a very successful meeting and we want to get to that sort of figure as soon as we can. It has to be said that there have been times in the past when we've managing that sort of figure and reducing substantially the number in the camps. The number in the camps, the number returned to Vietnam went down by about 44,000, 45,000 over a five- year period. We've got to get back to that sort of rate of moving people.
End/Wednesday, June 21, 1995
ExCo approves changes to schools provident fund rules
The Governor-in-Council has approved the amendments to the rules governing the operation of the Grant Schools Provident Fund and the Subsidised Schools Provident Fund.
The two Funds are statutory provident fund schemes open to serving grant school and subsidised school teachers. Each fund is administered by its own Board of Control.
A Government spokesman said today (Wednesday) it was necessary to update and to make changes to these rules to take account of developments that had taken place since they were last amended in 1990.
The approved amendments to the Provident Fund Rules:
include the method of setting off provident fund payment against severance or long service payment;
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allow deceased contributors' accounts to be kept open for annual dividend purposes before payment to their personal representatives:
C. include the definitions of the Hong Kong Special Schools Council and new types of schools; and
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