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HONG KONG : TEST OF ACCEPTABILITY

APPOINTMENT OF MONITORING TEAM : FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS

PERIOD

1.

For the purpose of these costings, it is assumed that the

monitoring team will be in existence for two months (roughly from

late September to late November 1984). It will need to be in place

before the test of acceptability formally began work, and to

continue until the assessment office had written its report.

FEES

2.

It is proposed that the fee should be Hong Kong dollars 43,500

per month, equivalent to the salary of a Hong Kong Justice of

Appeal. It would be payable in Hong Kong dollars and taxable in

Hong Kong. Both the UK and the Hong Kong monitor would be paid by

HMG (perhaps indirectly in the latter case).

SUBSISTENCE

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3. As the UK based monitor will be living in a hotel for a

relatively long period, it is proposed that he should occupy a

suite. A provisional reservation has been made by the Hong Kong

government in the Hilton Hotel. The cost would be HK$ 1564 per

night. In addition the Hong Kong Government considers that it might

be appropriate for the UK based monitor to be paid daily subsistence

of HK$ 300 to cover meals and other living expenses. These sums are

higher than the class A rate of subsistence in HM Diplomatic

Service, and some downward adjustment might be appropriate.

TRAVEL

4. It is proposed that a first class return air passage Hong Kong/London/Hong Kong should be paid in respect of the UK monitor. If he wished to be accompanied by his wife, it might be necessary

consider an arrangement under which her fare also would be paid.

This could well be a powerful attraction for getting the right

person.

MEDICAL EXPENSES

5.

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It is understood that the usual arrangement, since the Monitors

are being paid by the FCO, is for injury insurance and any medical

expenses to be paid by HMG, but that they would be covered under the

medical scheme and that these costs would not therefore be a

charge on the budget of the present exercise. (An accompanying wife would not be covered by these arrangements).

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