TNAG-2422-FCO40-3524-Hong-Kong-Her-Majesty-s-Overseas-Civil-Service-(HMOCS)-poli-1992 — Page 116

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FROM: N J Cox

PSMAY 1992

PS/Mr Goodlad Aus 14.

HONG KONG: HMOCS

29 APR 1992

Hong Kong Department

DATE: 29 April 1992

cc: Sir J Coles

Mr Kerby, ODA

Mr Fifoot

Mr Ricketts

Mr Davies, FED

Mr Wye, RAD

Miss Brooks

Legal Advisers

Mr Fish, ODA

Special Advisers News Department

Problem

1. How to handle the consultations in Hong Kong next week on the HMOCs compensation/incentive proposal.

Recommendations

2. I recommend that:

(a) I should write to the Chairman of the HMOCS Association on 30 April on the lines of the attached draft, to make clear that we shall not be bringing any proposal to allow early retirement of HMOCS officers with immediate payment of pension and that the question of sterling safeguard for pensions remains under consideration;

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