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Repeated requests for HKG's aid in making

contact

with its senior staff and in obtaining

information on the civil service.

THE SARG STRUCTURE

12.

The Basic Law (BL) offers only limited guidance as

to CPG intentions for 1997:

(a)

(b)

Continuity of benefits from employment is

assured for all civil servants

before 1997 (Article 100);

appointed

Continuity of management systems for the civil

service after 1997

respect

is assured except in

of "privileged treatment" for

foreigners (Article 103); but

(c) The

SARG's administrative structure is

described in terminology sharply different

from the

pre-1997 set-up and appears to

(d)

reflect the

administrative

structure of PRC

provincial-level governments (Article 60);

and, as a result,

Continuity

of the existing structure of senior

Branch and Departmental posts is not assured

(although very likely for most posts).

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