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b)

c)

a Disciplined Services Scheme (DSS) also based on a

points system; and

a Sensitive Services Scheme (SSS) under which persons

Occupying particularly sensitive posts would be

nominated for citizenship.

7. Details of each component are set out below. In brief, a

separate quota is proposed for the disciplined services because

the general allocation scheme, which is designed to give priority

to groups with high emigration rates, would afford them only a

small number of places. Staff in these services are not

emigrating in significant numbers, but they are resigning to take

up less exposed occupations, or ones where the opportunities for

emigration are higher. Their role in the fun up to 1997 is

vital, and a separate scheme, offering a reasonable number of

assurances, is justified. The sensitive service scheme requires

a totally different method of selection from the points systems which will operate

operate elsewhere, and has therefore also been

separated out from the main scheme.

Eligibility

8. The intention remains that eligibility for consideration

under the Scheme will be restricted to those holding British

nationality (see paragraph 5 of Annex A). Included in this

category are British Overseas Citizens, British Protected Persons

and British Subjects whose stay in Hong Kong is not subject to

any conditions or who have applied for BDTC status before the

date of the Bill's enactment.

9.

The Foreign Secretary and I think it right that eligibility should be extended to include Certificate of Identity (CofI)

holders who, although not yet British nationals, have applied for

BDTC status by the date of the Bill's enactment. A significant

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