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APPENDIX

1.

Strength of the Public Service

The size of Hong Kong's Service in round figures is:-

Local officers

Overseas officers

80,000

1,900

81,900

The

The overseas officers include 1,300 on pensionable terms.

remaining 600 serving on contract or temporary transfer terms.

There is no overseas Service Aid Scheme Agreement with the Hong

Kong Government.

2.

Salaries Commission

The 1971 Salaries Commission which the Hong Kong Government is

still considering has made the following major recommendations

in their Report that,

(a) The present scales should be replaced by a

system of class scales grouped by comparable function;

(b)

the Government should consider setting up an

Industrial Civil Service, separate from the Civil

Service, with its own terms related to the industrial

Some 41,000 Government

class of the private sector.

Servants are in this group;

(c) there should be substantial increases in pay

tapering off at the higher level;

(a) education allowances should be paid for children

of local and overseas officers educated in Hong Kong.

Overseas education allowances for local and overseas

officers should be raised to the same rate as under the

Overseas Service Aid Scheme elsewhere;

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