TNAG-2396-FCO40-3483-Hong-Kong-Civil-Service-policy-1992 — Page 249

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6/3 AM

Enter then back to me23361,

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Reference OMH 735/147/002

From: Sheona Duff

HKA 016/1

Date: February 1992

Ms Emma Williams Hong Kong Department WH303

3

AK

Enter pls.

HKB

233/1(1991)

147

HONG KONG LOCALISATION OF UK LAWS ON CIVIL SERVICE MATTERS

I refer to my minute to Ms Coglin of 25 September and to subsequent telephone conversations with you.

Our Legal Adviser has now responded and I attach a copy of her advice for your information.

We have very few papers on this subject but I attach copies of those that we do have and hope that they will be of assistance to you.

Sheona Duff

Policy Section

Overseas Pensions Department Extension 3562

copy reply to LIK to OPD, ODA

4K

12

LF

(see para 4)

Mrs Duff rang me on 3/3/92. She thought that it was

decisions the Treasury who were responsible for policy concerning the UK Aincipal Civil service Pension Scheme: She would be writing to the Treasury in due course and would send us a copy of her letter She emphasised that would not have any

any

effect on

such change in policy the question of the necessity for Hong Kong to localise sections 38 and 39 of the Superannuation Act 1965. The conclusion

we should draw from Mrs McFee's namnute is in

para

6, i... it is not necessary for HK to localise sections 38 & 39 of the 1965 Act, as nile 2.29 of the UK PCSPS relates to UK Civil Servants who have had a

Iperiod