TNAG-2091-FCO40-2977-Royal-Hong-Kong-Police-Force-1990 — Page 126

강

INDEPENDENT COMMISSION AGAINST CORRUPTION

署政

總督特派廉政專員公署

Ref. : (10) in ICAC 5/7 VIII

Tel. * 5251011 Ext. 101

23 January 1990

Personnel Services Executive,

Overseas Development Administration,

Abercrombie House,

Eaglesham Road,

East Kilbride,

Glasgow G75 8EA,

U.K.

ch. Supp. bearn

Please alert Does this apply RHKP/UK

to

serendees

8/90

F...

Dear Sir,

I am aware from PNB Circular 89/14 (Advisory) that an agreement has been reached by the Police Negotiating Board to replace Rent Allowance with a Housing Allowance. I further understand that the agreement has been placed before the Secretaries of State for approval, and, if approved, will take effect from 1 April 1990. With effect from that date officers already in receipt of Rent Allowance and serving in England, Wales and Scotland become eligible for the new allowance.

As you will appreciate this does not, at face value, include the 43 officers seconded from various United Kingdom police forces serving with this Commission. All were in receipt of Rent Allowance at the time their secondment started and expected, under the existing arrangements, to become eligible for it on their return to their parent force.

That expectation is not unreasonable in the light of a letter from Mr. R.F. Napier, the then Personnel Services Executive of the Overseas Development Administration (your OSD/P 8022 dated 23 May 1984 refers), which at paragraph (ii) states

we have relayed

to the Hong Kong Government the view

the view taken by the Home Office that any change in the method of calculating Rent Allowance will not adversely affect officers whose terms are governed by the Police (Overseas Service) Act 1945".

•

1

./2

Operations Department, Murray Road Carpark Building, 8th-10th floors, 2 Murray Road, Hong Kong GPO Box 1000 Telex: 65198 ICAC HX Cable: ICAC HK 執行處 香港美利道美利道停車場大廈九至十一樓 電報掛號:ICAC HK

: 5-251011

香港郵政總局信箱1000

Tel: 5-251011

65198 ICAC HX