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HONG KONG: OFFICERS ON EXPATRIATE PENSIONABLE TERMS WHO ARE

NOT MEMBERS OF HM OVERSEAS CIVIL SERVICE (HMOCS),

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Problem

1.

Certain expatriate pensionable officers, who are not members of HMOCS, may try to use precedent and history to argue that they should be included in any sterling safeguard

which HMG may provide.

Recommendation

2. That we should maintain our policy line that any arrangements to protect the value of pensions beyond those in the Joint Declaration (JD) are for members of HMOCS only.

Background

3.

In the course of our discussions preparing for the next round of the Whitehall battle to provide a sterling safeguard for the pensions of Hong Kong HMOCS officers, our Legal Consultant has pointed out that the earlier practice was to require a former colony to enter into a Public Officers Agreement (POA) on independence whereby certain officers, in addition to members of HMOCS, were entitled to receive their pensions outside the former colony and, in such

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