TNAG-2421-FCO40-3523-Hong-Kong-Her-Majesty-s-Overseas-Civil-Service-(HMOCS)-poli-1992 — Page 173

6 April 1992

(BY FAX)

Mr Mike Waters

PAS Civil Service Branch Hong Kong Government

Dear Mike

Foreign & Commonwealth

Office

London SWIA 2AH

Telephone: 071-

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HMOCS: CAP 89: CONTRACT OFFICERS

1.

I should be grateful if you could fax me an extract of cap 89 of the Pensions Ordinance/Regulations which promulgate the new pension scheme. Our edition of the laws of Hong Kong seems to be out of date.

On contract officers who may join HMOCS, I have the following questions:

2.

(a) Do all the contract officers who have joined/are eligible to join HMOCS serve in "established offices"?

(b) Is the reason that such officers were or are not "pensionable" the fact that they fall within regulation

of Ccp89) 21(b)? Are there any other reasons why they are not

pensionable?

(c) When such officers opt to join the pensionable establishment, do they have to repay their past gratuities and, on doing so, does the whole of their past uninterrupted service count as pensionable service? Is there an establishment circular spelling this out, and, if so could we have a copy?

3.

Grateful for a reply Deskby 070830Z.

Yaz aye,

Mil ustan

M V Stone

Hong Kong Department

KIPAIV SLM