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Under Article 10 paragraph (6) of the British Nationality (Hong Kong) (Selection Scheme) Order 1990, an applicant in OG1 who was a manager or administrator in service with the Government of Hong Kong but who ceased to be in such service before the common date should not come under the civil service queue of OG1. Legal advice confirms that those OG1 applicants who did not serve as managers and administrators in Government on the common date should not be included in the queue of civil servants. In the light of legal advice, these two applicants were transferred to the non-civil service queue for OG1.

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In the third case, the applicant is a Rent Officer of the Rating and Valuation Department who previously worked as a Housing Officer in the Housing Department. Based on her previous service as a Housing Officer, she applied in OG1. Like the two applicants mentioned in para. 4 above, she was initially queued up under the civil service queue of OG1 as she was in Government service on the common date. As legal advice confirms that only those managers and administrators in government service on the common date should be included in the queue of civil servants, she was transferred to the non-civil service queue of OG1.

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In the fourth case the applicant is a Senior Officer of the Mass Transit Railway Corporation (MTRC) who applied under OG1 as an administration manager. He claimed that he was a civil servant as MTRC was wholly owned by the Hong Kong Government. He was inadvertently queued up under the civil service queue of OG1. Later the error was discovered during a checking exercise before the issuance of rejection letters and he was transferred to the non-civil service queue of OG1.

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