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after the definition of "registered" there shall be added-

"second period" means that period specified by direction and starting on 3rd January 1994 and ending on 30th June 1997.”.

2. For article 4(2) there shall be substituted —

"(2) Unless invited by the Governor to make a further application in either the sensitive service class or the entrepreneurs class, an applicant may only apply in one of the classes referred to in paragraph (1) in any single period specified in a direction." /

3. Article 5 shall be amended by the insertion at the beginning of the words “(1) Subject to paragraph (2),” and after article 5 there shall be inserted—

“(2) If it appears to the Governor that the number of persons to be recommended in any class will fall short of the quota the Governor may transfer the remaining quota in that class to one or more of the other classes.".

4. In article 7 before the definition of "approved occupation" there shall be inserted-

""application rate” in relation to any specified occupational group or approved occupation means the percentage of persons who appear to the Governor to have been working in Hong Kong in that group or occupation on the common date of the first period and who have applied under the scheme in that group or occupation in the first period;”.

5. For article 10 there shall be substituted-

"10-(1) Subject to the provisions of this Article, the quota in relation to applicants in approved occupations shall be 500 and within that quota of 500 the quota for each approved occupation for the second period shall be determined by the following formula-

where-

E

(+) x =

(a) A is the number of emigrants in each approved occupation on the common date, determined by multiplying the number of persons who appear to the Governor to be working in Hong Kong in cach approved occupation on the common date by the emigration rate applicable to that approved occupation;

(b) B is the total number of emigrants in all approved occupations on the common date: (c) C is the estimated number of applicants in cach approved occupation in the second period, determined by multiplying the number of persons who appear to the Governor to be working in Hong Kong in each approved occupation on the common date by the application rate of that approved occupation in the first period;

(d) D is the total number of applikations in all approved occupations in the second period, as

determined by the Governor;

(c) E is one half of the maximum number of applicants in the approved occupations who may be

recommended in the second period.

(2) If the Governor is satisfied that the application of the formula set out in paragraph (1) would be inappropriate in relation to a particular approved occupation because either

(a) the information relating to the applicable emigration rate is unsatisfactory or unavailable; or (b) the number of persons who appear to the Governor to be working in Hong Kong in that occupation is so small that the emigration rate is an unreliable indication of the extent to which such persons are likely to emigrate from Hong Kong in the future,

he may, in relation to that approved occupation, calculate the quota in accordance with such criteria as he may determine.

(3) The quota in relation to each specified occupational group for the second period shall be determined by the following formula-

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VIC.

W.C.

A cepplicants

(+) x 1

E

where-

(a) A is the number of emigrants in each occupational group on the common date, determined by multiplying the number of persons who appear to the Governor to be working in Hong Kong in cach occupational group on the common date by the emigration rate applicable to that occupational group;

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