TNAG-0703-FCO40-868-Recruitment-policy-for-Hong-Kong-use-of-Colonial-Regulation--1978 — Page 7

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strictly speaking, qualified offices in the Public Service in other Dependent

Your telno 286: Colonial Regulation 18.

2 We appreciate your desire to press ahead with

localisation where practicable, but the main intention

of CR18 is to protect the employment of officers

already in the Public Service who might otherwise

find their careers blocked by persons from outside

subsequently recruited to higher grades. The term

'meritorious officers in the Public Service' does

not mean merely officers in the immediately

subordinate posts) to that in which a vacancy occurs,

but all qualified officers in the Territory and

indeed in ether Territories if they apply, or if

under

they are selected by the Secretary of State CR19).

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