Compensation Arrangements for HMOCS
11.
Agreement on future of Hong Kong provides satisfactorily for
continuity of service by serving officers in the public service in
Hong Kong, on terms and conditions, including pay and pensions, no
less favourable than 30 June 1997.
The se provisions apply to
members of Her Majesty's Overseas Civil Service (HMOC S) serving in
Hong Kong as well as to other civil servants. Resumption of
sovereign ty over Hong Kong by the People's Republic of China raises
similar issues
in respect of HMOCS as independence has in other
dependent territories.
Not possible, however, to define now, 11 and
of
a half years in advance
constitutional change, all the
arrangements which will apply to members of
HMOCS serving in Hong
Kong to payment of their pensions by the Hong Kong Government after
1 July 1997.
The Government accept that we should aim in
consultation with the Hong Kong Government to achieve suitable
compensation
arrangements for members of the overseas civil service
and other pensionable overseas civil servants affected by the
agreement.
Nationality
Hong Kong nationality order in council debated
12.
16 January.
March.
Will be
further
opportunity
to discuss
in
House on
probably
in
.
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