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HK.C.C.SP

Hong Kong Chinese Civil Servants' Association

香港政府華員會

8 WYLIE ROAD, KING'S PARK, KOWLOON, HONG KONG.

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TEL: 300 1066 (4 LINES)

九龍京士柏衛理道八號

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FAX: 771 1139

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LONG TERM SECURITY OF PENSION PAYMENT URGED

BY HONG KONG CHINESE CIVIL SERVANTS

1. The UK Government is going to hand over the soverignty of i's most prosperous independent Territory - Hong Kong To China

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1 July 1997, we in only 4 years 7 months' time.

2. To Hong Kong civil servants, this means a change of employer- from the present British Hong Kong Government to the future People's Republic of China's Special Administrative Region (SAR)

Government.

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of

3. This involves virtually a "handing

of pension liability from the British Hong Kong Government to the SAR Government, INC. The Sino-British Joint Declaration and the Basic Law

the Hong Kong SAR has promised that the future Government of the Hong Kong SAR shall pay all pensions on terms no less favourable than before. The payment of pensions has also become a statutory charge.

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well as

The British Hong Kong Government is repeatedly telling members of the civil service as

the public this political guarantee. and continues to de facto ignore repented calls from the unions, the Staff Side of the Senior Civil Service Council to acknowledge. local civil servants' worries that there might be a default in the payment of pensims.

5. The fact that there has never bein any

reserve and the pensions