11-JUN-1992 15:34
PAUL FIFOOT
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had first been appointed to the Hong Kong service on Or
before 28th March 1985.
The Secretary of State has, nevertheless, concluded that, in view of the open ended arrangement whereby overseas judicial officers will continue to be eligible to transfer to pensionable service, such a transfer will no longer make them eligible to apply for membership of HMOCS. The Secretary of State has been informed that the Judiciary first learned on the 15th April 1992 that the restriction that the applicant should have been appointed to the Hong Kong service on or before 28th March 1985 was, in practice, being applied to all applications for membership of HMOCS even though the Judiciary had been informed, in effect, that Circular 6/65 did not apply to it. In these circumstances, he has decided that applications for membership of HMOCS will continue to be received from otherwise eligible members of the Judiciary if they were first appointed before 15th April 1992 provided that the applicant has been transferred to the pensionable service of Hong Kong and that
(a) his application for transfer to the pensionable service is received by the appropriate Hong Kong
authorities; and
(b) his application for membership of IIMOCS, contingent on his being transferred to the Hong Kong pensionable service, is recieved in Hong Kong Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, before 1st September 1992][1st October 19921.
3. No later application for membership of HMOCS will be entertained notwithstanding that it remains open to members of the Judiciary to apply for transfer to pensionable terms in Hong Kong, [and the Special Regulations for HMOCS will be amended accordingly).
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TOTAL P 24/04
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