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Notices of Amendments: 6th June 1990
British Nationality (Hong Kong) Bill continued
non-statutory board or committee, or an auxiliary service established by the Hong Kong Government.
The General Allocation Section
(m) The points system would provide the selection mechanism for the GAS. Over 70 per cent of the available places would be allocated under this Section. and it would cover people from a wide range of walks of life who had a key role in maintaining the prosperity and successful administration of Hong Kong. They would come from seven broad areas of work:
Business and Management
Accounting
Engineering
Information services
Medicine and science
Law
Education.
(n) For the purposes of the detailed administration of the GAS, these seven areas would be sub-divided into 20 occupational groups. These are based on groupings specified by the International Standard Classification of Occupations and are used for certain other statistical purposes in Hong Kong, notably the collection and analysis of emigration and census data. Emigration data are important because of the need to give priority under the citizenship scheme to those occupational groups suffering the greatest proportional losses. The places available under the GAS would therefore be divided among the occupational groups acording to a formula based on the number of people in each group and their emigration rate over the past three years. (0) Within the first tranche of the GAS, there would be a residual category of 500 places for people with technical skills and professional qualifications who were performing functions which were essential to the continued successful administration of Hong Kong up to 1997 but who did not fall within the Occupational groups specified and being "key" for the purposes of the Scheme.
(p) Sub-paragraph (8) below indicates, in broad terms, the likely distribution of
places available in the first tranche.
Procedure
(q) Applications would be submitted to the Hong Kong Government by a specified date. The Steering Group would recommend for each occupational group and any of its individual occupations the criteria for which special circumstances points would be awarded. The appliction forms would be examined by members of the Hong Kong Immigration Department (HKID) and points awarded for each of the criteria listed in sub-paragraphs (f) to (1) above. The information on all candidates in each occupational group would be entered into a specially designed computer system which would produce an initial profile showing the candidates in order of points scored. This would be examined by the Steering Group who would recommend any further adjustment which might be needed in the allocation of the special circumstances points to take account of the particular range of applicants and the need to resolve problems of "bunching". After the award of these points. a revised ranking of candidates would be produced. If necessary, the process would be repeated. Taking account of the number of places available within the group. HKID would then produce a list of those candidates who appeared to be qualified and those who seemed likely to be rejected. These two lists would be sumbitted to the Steering Group for examination.
(r) Those candidates who appeared prima facie to be qualified would be interviewed by HKID in order to verify the information on their application
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