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Mr McLaren
PS/Mr Maude
PS/Mrs Chalker
Private Secretary
SECRET
FROM: A R Paul
Hong Kong Department
DATE: 13 February 1990
CC: Mr Blatherwick
Mr Crabby, RMD
Mr Griffiths, Finance Dept
Mr Whitehead, News Dept
HONG KONG: GENERAL COMPENSATION SCHEME FOR MEMBERS OF HER MAJESTY'S
OVERSEAS CIVIL SERVICE (HMOCS)
PROBLEM
1.
We have now agreed with Hong Kong the details of a general
compensation scheme for HMOCS members. How should we proceed with
this within the Government here, with the Chinese, and in Hong
Kong?
RECOMMENDATION
2. I recommend that the attached draft OD (K) paper be circulated
amongst colleagues, that we consult the Chinese over the scheme at
JLG XV and that a joint ODA/FCO Team go to Hong Kong to promulgate the scheme in due course later this year.
BACKGROUND
3. There are some 800 officers in the Hong Kong Government and in
the Royal Hong Kong police force who are or have the option to
become members of HMOCS. HMG have an obligation to see that HMOCS
officers are appropriately compensated for the change in their
status arising from the transfer of sovereignty in 1997. This
obligation was inshrined in a white paper of 1960 which set out
general principals of governing the treatment of HMOCS officers in
ROYAPH
SECRET
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