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25% were Chinese. of the 600 officials in the senior ranks of the civil service, 400 were Macanese, 200 were metropolitan Portugese and none were Chinese. At the Under Secretary level, 2 officials were now Macanese (Dr Rangel and one other).
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After 1999, only the Governor has to be a Chinese with no right of abode overseas. The principal officials have to be Chinese, but Peking would of course consider all Macanese holding Portugese passports to be Chinese.
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If
Dr Rangel explained that up to 3,000 civil servants were expected to leave Macau before 1999 to join the Portugese civil service. This option would be open for a period of one year from early 1993 to those holding Portugese passports they applied to do this, the Governor would decide when they would go to Portugal. In Portugal they would receive Portugese salaries, benefits and pensions. These were lower than Macau
salaries and benefits. There was therefore some financial
incentive to stay in Macau.
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A second option for Macau civil servants would be to
leave before 1999 with a lump sum of 2 months salary for every year of service. But to take advantage of this scheme, a civil servant must have served for 15 years in Macau. Less than a thousand were likely to leave under this scheme.
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Other civil servants could stay and the SAR would pay their salaries and pensions. A pension fund had been set up in 1985, but this would now all be used to give lump sums to those with over 15 years service who opted to leave. The SAR Government would have to pay the pensions of civil servants
after 1999 from recurrent income.
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