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5.

(b)

A first payment of a proportion of the sum

calculated will be

last

day on which

responsibilities in

of

made on 30 June 1997, the

the Secretary of State has respect of serving officers

HMOCS in Hong Kong, to all HMOCS officers who are in the service of HKG on that date;

(c) Subsequent payments will be made at annual intervals to officers, who were members of HMOCS

on 30 June 1997 and who are in the service of the Hong Kong SARG on the date of the subsequent

payment.

Amongst the matters of detail which we wish to discuss with HMOCS officers' representatives are

(a) Whether the period

(b)

over which the phasing of

payments after the initial one will take place should span the whole of the officers' remaining

in service of the Hong Kong SAR

Government or some lesser period.

career

that

an

officer

receive should

possible entitlement only if he

We consider

his maximum

continues in

service until the end of the phasing period.

Whether the first and subsequent payments should be made annually in equal proportions or whether there should be some sort of "loading". For example, to increase the benefit to those who

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