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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1990

EACH OF THESE BROAD AREAS HAS THEN BEEN FURTHER SUB-DIVIDED INTO 20 OCCUPATIONAL CATEGORIES, BASED ON THE INTERNATIONAL STANDARD CLASSIFICATION OF OCCUPATIONS, WHICH IS USED FOR CENSUS AND MIGRATION DATA COLLECTION PURPOSES IN HONG KONG. THE SHARE OF PASSPORTS MADE AVAILABLE UNDER EACH OF THESE CATEGORIES HAS BEEN DETERMINED BY REFERENCE TO THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN EACH WHO HAVE EMIGRATED OVER THE PAST THREE YEARS.

THERE WILL BE A RESIDUAL CATEGORY FOR THOSE OCCUPATIONAL GROUPS, WHO FALL OUTSIDE THE SEVEN BROAD AREAS I HAVE MENTIONED.

ELIGIBILITY FOR PASSPORTS ALLOCATED UNDER THIS GENERAL ALLOCATION, AND ALSO UNDER THE DISCIPLINED SERVICE SECTION, WILL BE CALCULATED ON A POINTS SYSTEM BASED ON SEVEN FACTORS: AGE, EXPERIENCE, EDUCATION AND TRAINING, SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES, PROFICIENCY IN ENGLISH, BRITISH LINKS AND COMMUNITY SERVICE.

HAVE THIS SCORE LESS.

THE GREATEST WEIGHT WILL BE GIVEN TO THE FIRST FOUR FACTORS.

AGE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT CONSIDERATION. PEOPLE AGED 30 40 PROVED THE MOST VULNERABLE TO EMIGRATION PRESSURES. AND IT IS GROUP WHICH MUST SEE US THROUGH THE TRANSITION. THEY WILL THUS MAXIMUM [200 POINTS] POINTS. THOSE ABOVE OR BELOW WILL SCORE

NEXT COMES EXPERIENCE, AND EDUCATION AND TRAINING, WITH 150 POINTS IN EACH CASE. TEN POINTS WILL BE AWARDED FOR EACH YEAR OF RELEVANT EXPERIENCE, UP TO A MAXIMUM OF 150. SEPARATELY, QUALIFICATIONS GAINED DURING GENERAL EDUCATION WILL COUNT FOR UP TO 50 POINTS. BASIC VOCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS FOR UP TO 50 MORE, WITH A MAXIMUM OF 50 MORE FOR POST-QUALIFICATION TRAINING.

HOWEVER, FORMAL QUALIFICATIONS ARE MORE IMPORTANT FOR SOME JOBS THAN OTHERS. IN SOME OCCUPATIONS, THE QUALITY OF ACHIEVEMENT CANNOT BE MEASURED BY QUALIFICATIONS ALONE. AND IN SOME GROUPS THE EMIGRATION RATE MAY BE PARTICULARLY HIGH FOR ONE PARTICULAR OCCUPATION THAN OTHERS IN THE SAME GROUP. TO TAKE ACCOUNT OF SPECIAL

OF THIS ᏚᏙᎡᎢ . UP TO A FURTHER 150 POINTS MAY

CIRCUMSTANCES ALLOTTED.

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FINALLY, UP TO A MAXIMUM OF 50 POINTS EACH MAY BE AWARDED FOR PROFICIENCY IN ENGLISH, BRITISH LINKS AND PUBLIC OR COMMUNITY SERVICE. THE MAXIMUM TOTAL SCORE IS THUS 800 POINTS.

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THE 7,000 PLACES AVAILABLE UNDER THE DISCIPLINED SERVICES SECTION WILL BE DISTRIBUTED TO EACH SERVICE IN PROPORTION TO ITS STAFF NUMBERS. ALLOCATION WITHIN EACH SERVICE WILL BE CONDUCTED THROUGH A POINTS SYSTEM SIMILAR TO THAT FOR THE GENERAL ALLOCATION SECTION, WHICH I HAVE JUST DESCRIBED.

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ARRANGEMENTS, WHICH HAVE EXISTED FOR SOME TIME, FOR THOSE HAVE SERVED IN PARTICULARLY SENSITIVE POSTS, WHETHER CIVILIAN OR MILITARY, WILL BE SURSUMED IN THE SENSITIVE SERVICE SECTION.

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