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professional qualifications which apply to "accounting associate professionals". Those listed in the Order are now out of date. The necessary changes would be made and the points scale brought into line.

Points for outstanding achievements etc.

6. The scheme is also thought to give insufficient points for exceptional merit or outstanding achievement awards, whether occupation-related, or for voluntary work or acts of bravery. Hong Kong would like to see the 20-30 points available for such achievements uplifted to 50 points. They would similarly prefer, in the light of experience in the first tranche, to see somewhat more importance attached to public or community service. Extremely few applicants have managed to score any meaningful number of points under this heading

this heading and that situation is considered to be wrong. They wish to make explicit provision for service as a non-official Justice of the Peace to count as public or community service and for such service to score points at the same rate as that recommended for service as a member of an

approved public body (ie. three points for each year of service). Because of the wording of the Order such service cannot be taken into account at present unless the JP belongs to an organisation of one form or another.

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