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FROM: D S FISH

(GTN 7 7243 3444)

DATE: 31 August 1990

cc Me Flood

MP'S LETTER: MR MCINTYRE: HMOCS MATTERS

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Thank you for your minute of 21 August.

LA

not

for one moment the continuity were to fail to

2. We may not have stated publicly that service in Hong Kong post-1997

SPOS purposes, but would be recognised for

I have doubted that it would. Our ability to shelter behind provision of the Joint Declaration would disappear if we accept service with the SAR Government for the purposes of the Pensions

(Increase) Act of 1971.

3. If we

are pressed on the specific question we can hardly dodge it. But in this case, given the tone of the letter from Mr Bottomley's office, I think that we could get away with the "non reply" you propose T+ would be helpful to avoid a detailed, third party debate cn SPOS related issues at a time when we have yet to appraise Ministers of complexities involved assurances about in giving HMOCS officers (past and present) defensible their future.

бри qui

D S FISH

Overseas Pensions Department 31 August 1990

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