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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1987

COMMITTEE TO CONSIDER POST-RETIREMENT JOB APPLICATIONS

THE GOVERNOR HAS APPOINTED AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO CONSIDER ADVISE ON ALL APPLICATIONS FROM SENIOR CIVIL SERVANTS FOR POST-RETIREMENT EMPLOYMENT.

AND

SIR ROGER LOBO HAS BEEN APPOINTED CHAIRMAN OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND MR JUSTICE GARCIA AND DR VICTOR FUNG HAVE BEEN APPOINTED MEMBERS. THE SECRETARY FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE IS ALSO A MEMBER.

A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY) THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE WOULD ADVISE THE GOVERNOR ON THE PRINCIPLES AND THE CRITERIA TO BE ADOPTED IN DEALING WITH APPLICATIONS FROM SENIOR CIVIL SERVANTS FOR POST-RETIREMENT EMPLOYMENT.

WHICH

WOULD THE

"APPLICATIONS FROM DIRECTORATE OFFICERS, BRANCH SECRETARIES AND ABOVE WOULD BE REFERRED TO THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE CONSIDER AND ADVISE THE

ON INDIVIDUAL SPOKESMAN SAID.

GOVERNOR

+

APPLICATIONS,

"IT WOULD ALSO CONSIDER AND ADVISE ON OTHER APPLICATIONS WHICH MIGHT BE REFERRED BY THE SECRETARY FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE,

**

HE ADDED.

ADOPTED IN

IN

SAID THE SPOKESMAN

THE BASIC PRINCIPLE TO BE CONSIDERING AN APPLICATION WAS THAT THERE SHOULD BE NO IMPROPRIETY THE PROPOSED APPOINTMENT.

IN THIS RESPECT, ACCOUNT SHOULD BE TAKEN OF:

*

WHETHER THE OFFICER HAD BEEN INVOLVED IN POLICY FORMULATION OR DECISION, THE EFFECTS OF WHICH COULD HAVE PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYER;

BENEFITED

THE

WHETHER THE EMPLOYER MIGHT GAIN HIS COMPETITORS BECAUSE OF KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE, AND

AN

UNFAIR ADVANTAGE OVER THE OFFICER'S PREVIOUS

THE

THE PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF THE OFFICER TAKING UP THE EMPLOYMENT IN QUESTION.

SPOKESMAN

SAID A STANDARD APPLICATION

BE FORM WOULD INTRODUCED WHICH WOULD BE DESIGNED TO OBTAIN MORE INFORMATION ABOUT CONSIDERATION OF THE THE PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYMENT SO AS TO FACILITATE APPLICATION AGAINST THE BASIC PRINCIPLES.

/AS REGARDS