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a)

a

b)

General Allocation Scheme (GAS) covering broad

occupational groups across the public and private sectors and based on a points system;

a Key Entrepreneurs Scheme (KES) under which the

Governor may recommend for citizenship selected

entrepreneurs the extent of whose investments and the

numbers they employ make them invaluable to Hong Kong;

c) a Disciplined Services Scheme (DSS) based on a points

system; and

d)

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. A separate

quota is proposed for the disciplined services because the GAS,

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 run up to 1997 is vital, and a separate scheme, offering

a reasonable number of assurances, is justified. The SSS

requires a totally different method of selection from the points

systems which will operate in the GAS and DSS 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

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