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to consider whether, and if so how, the Commission should advise on conditions of service matters other than those referred to in (d), particularly conditions of service affecting individual grades or groups;

(h) to advise the Governor on such matters as he may

refer to it.

II.

The Commiasion should keep the matters within its terms of reference under continuing review, and recommend to the Governor any necessary changes.

III.

The Commission shall give due weight to any wider community interests, including financial and economic considerations, which in its view are relevant.

IV.

The Commission shall give due weight to the need for good staff relations within the Civil Service, and in tendering its advice shall be free to make any recommendations which would contribute to this end.

In considering its recommendations and advice, the Commission shall not prejudice the 1968 Agreement between the Hong Kong Government and the Main Staff Associations.

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The provisions of I(d) above shall not, for an initial period, preclude the Main Staff Associations, either jointly or individually, from referring any conditions of service listed in the Note to the Commission without the prior agreement of the Official Side of the Senior Civil Service Council.

VII.

Directorate pay and conditions of service will continue to be the subject of advice by the Standing Committee on Directorate Salaries and Conditions of Service. Pending advice from the Commission under I(c), overall reviews of the Master Pay Scale will continue for the time being to be based on surveys of pay trends in the private sector (as opposed to reviews of the salary of individual grades) subject to the advice of the Senior Civil Service Council.

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