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make any commitment in this regard: however HMG would use their best endeavours in discussion with HKG and, if
necessary with the Chinese Government, to ensure that HMOCS
officers who wish to retire before 30 June 1997 could do so
[in accordance with certain conditions to be notified by HKG
HMG would also use their best endeavours in discussion with
HKG, the Chinese Government and, as appropriate the SARG, to ensure that satisfactory arrangements in this regard were made after 1 July 1997.
b) in practice we would ask HKG to allow all officers who
before 1 January 1996 apply to retire to do so at the time
to be decided by HKG by the date of their application and 30 June 1997; and they should enjoy immediate payment of
pension]
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(a) in briefing the Chinese on our HMOCS arrangements we should tell them that the HMOCS officers had made a strong case for the traditional right of early retirement; Hong Kong's pensions legislation already permitted this in
this certain cases but in our view to go beyond and say that the SARG would allow all HMOCS officers to retire at any time after 1997 at the time of their choosing would be a
change of civil service conditions of service and a new obligation to the SARG on which the British side would first wish to consult the Chinese side: however in our view it
we think
would be better for the two sides to discuss this question in due course in the context of a broader discussion of
we are not yet ready for such discussions, so will meanwhile be telling HMOCS officers that we can offer them no assurance that early retirement will be permitted other than in accordance with existing
that Hong Kong legislation but we shall hope to discuss this and other civil service issues with the HKG and the Chinese
Government in due course and will use our best endeavours to ensure that mutally satisfactory arrangements are made.
Graind on the vary civil service issues we stage with
Too tricky for words
purpose & let them all retiré!
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PF Ricketts
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