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APPENDIX 17

Conditions for Employment of Teachers

Approval of the Director

1.

on Overseas Terms

The Director may approve the employment on overseas terms of a teacher of English provided that the school has a vacancy in its quota for

teachers employed on such terms and he is satisfied that the teacher -

(a) is not habitually resident in Hong Kong, Macau,

China or Taiwan;

(b) has his principal family and social ties and

general background in a country other than those

named above; and

(c) would suffer a material degree of dislocation or

uprooting from the environment to which he naturally belongs if he was engaged on terms which did not provide for his periodically visiting his country

of habitual residence.

Medical Examination

2.

All teachers to be employed on overseas terms must have a medical examination and chest X-ray and be certified as medically fit by a registered

doctor before they leave their country of origin.

Contract

3.

In addition to the particulars laid down in Section 49, the contract for teachers employed on overseas terms should include provisions for payment

of the cost of passage on appointment, resignation, termination of appointment, or marriage in the case of a female teachers, and for the payment of travelling and baggage allowance on first appointment. (See paragraph 7).

Contract Period and Leave

4.

(a) A contract shall be for a period of two years commencing

on 1st September and terminating on 31st August. The Director may approve a contract for a period other than

two years.

(b) If the date of com.encment of a contract is later than

1st September, but falls within the first term of the academic year, the date of termination shall be as if

the contract had commenced on 1st September in that year. (c) If the date of commencement of a contract is later than

1st January of the academic year, the teacher's service

for the remainder of the academic year will not earn

lcave of passago benefits, and the teacher will be- -

required to serve a period of two years from 1st

September in the year in which his employment commenced.

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