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POINTS TO MAKE TO MR KERBY, AUS, ODA (TEL NO: 213-4849),

COMPENSATION SCHEME (GCS)

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1. Began discussing GCS with ODA (Mr Mike Power, Head of Pensions Department)

Agreed ODA would draft paper for Ministers.

last summer.

All aware then

GCS

that HKG option for contract officers to transfer to Permanent and Pensionable terms expired September 1987. They must how shatter or at Chare is like helor Clas

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Since then, considerable nagging has produced a first draft in December (we commented January); a second in March (we commented March); and a third

<HAG handhion had to so postumst. in May (we commented June By this time it was clear we could not get the paper through our Ministers, Treasury and OD (K) before JLG VII and we used

agains excuse of general election to postpone Hong Kong deadline to March 1988.

3. Time marches on: the deadline cannot be postponed again; we need to consult Chinese well before then (ie must do so at JLG VIII); and Governor wishes to discuss next week. Despite further reminders from us, no sign of redrafted

ODA paper as basis for discussion.

4.

To have a sensible discussion with the Governor we must have an agreed draft by the end of this week ie a clean ODA draft by midday Thursday.

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