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VII.

Civil Service

- 3

k)

1)

m)

The problem of civil service pensions should be

solved early to ease the minds of civil servants.

The Chinese side had not suggested that the Land Fund

could be used to back up pensions. The Land Fund was

placed in the custody of the CPG and would be handed

to the SARG in 1997 for SARG's free disposal.

over

civil servants, though serving the British administration, were serving the people of

Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong and should political

discrimination

stay beyond 1997.

n)

The

o)

p)

therefore not be subject to

and they were encouraged to

Chinese Government appreciated that civil

servants had their own considerations in applying for

the right of abode in the U.K. under the British

Nationality Scheme. Those who had obtained right of abode in the U.K. would be allowed to occupy the

senior posts with right of abode restriction if they

renounced their British citizenship.

Promotion of civil servants was a matter within the

autonomy of the SARG.

Expressed concern with the pace of localisation for

the Legal Department.