Probationary AO
Confirmed AO
SAO
- 2.
Cumulative Years of Service
0
3
4
7
Staff Grade C
10
Staff Grade B
17
Age
22
25 26
qualifying
age 30
qualifying
age 32
40
Fait
mint
5.
Staff Grade Bl (to be created)
Staff Grade A
Secretary
(Ranks beyond SGB are for
flyers only and there are no age and service criteria,
but officers in these ranks would tend to be younger than their UK counterparts because of HK's retirement age of 55)
Third, because of the limited openings at Staff Grade B level and above, for practical purposes, transfers and secondments should normally be at Staff Grade C level and below. For a Staff Grade C opening, we expect to have on secondment or transfer a UK officer with more than two years' experience in either the Principal rank of HCS or D5 rank of DS. A Principal or D5 officer with less than two years' experience should join as an SAO. Promotion beyond the Staff Grade C rank is determined largely on the basis of merit and seniority within it does not necessarily carry a greater claim for promotion to Staff Grade B. For this reason, it is not important to award seniority within a rank on transfer.
Fourth, because our Executive Grade Association has never been satisfied with the small number of their members transferring to the Administrative stream, it would not be politic for us to accept the transfer to the Hong Kong Administrative Service of UK HCS or DS officers on the slow stream, unless there were strong justification for doing so.
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