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RESTRICTED

Ref.: DP 63/6-C (89) IV

(Note

Annex 3.6

GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT HONG KONG

4 December 1992

Civil Service Branch Circular No. 17/92

The Acceptance of Advantages (Governor's Permission)

Notice 1992 and related matters

: Distribution

should

be

of this circular is Scale C i.e. it read by Heads of Department, Departmental Secretaries, and other officers handling staff matters.)

INTRODUCTION

of

The purpose of this circular is to explain the provisions Acceptance of Advantages (Governor's Permission) Notice 1992 (Annex A), which supersedes the Acceptance of Advantages (Governor's Permission) Notice 1981, and to give departments guidance on the following related matters :-

(a)

the acceptance of entertainment;

(b) conflict of interest between an officer's private

concerns and his official duties or position;

(c) gifts

presented to an officer in his

his official

capacity;

(d) gifts and donations to a department as a whole; and

(e) sponsored visits, including ship-launching and

inaugural flights.

The Acceptance of Advantages (Governor's Permission) Notice 1992 retains the basic principle and spirit of the Acceptance of Advantages (Governor's Permission) Notice 1981. It introduces a number of technical amendments to remove minor inconsistencies and ambiguities in the previous Notice. Other amendments include -

(a)

increase in the permissible value of loan of money and gifts under paragraphs 5 and 6 of the Notice;

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