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GOVERMENT HOUSE HONG KONG.

SAT 24 JUL 93 00:24

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will be offered

Overseas

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conditions of service.

Anyone who

doca not mcet the criteria for OVGIJOas terms will be

offered itral appointment terms. AS you can judge from

this, ethnic origin, nationality ot citizenship do not AS

such determine whether a candidate should be employed on

DIMET Seas terms. It is also important to note that

existing policy after this initial categorisation no

local

under

change is allowed from one set of terms to the other.

1.

overseas;

in addition to the distinction between local and

appointments are further categorised in Lo Lhose

madc on a "permanent and pensionable" basis and those made

on an "agreement" (or contract) basis. Thue there are four

main terms of appointment in the civil service, viz.

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5.

local permanent and pensionable terms;

local agreement terms;

overseas permanent and pencionable termoj

ovoracao agreement terms.

The normal terma of

appointment

for a local

candidala are local permanent

and pencionable torme.

llowever, for grades which have difficulty in recruiting of

retaining local candidatoc on permanent and pensionable

Gif

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