07-JUL-1993
18:39
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It is envisaged that any transfers between groups and/or classes will take place in a one-off exercise on a date to be specified by the Governor. This will probably be before completion of the processing of applications in the relevant group or class, but after the Hong Kong Government has established the size of the unused quota.
New basis for quotas
To assist with the general aim of matching more exactly supply and demand in the various categories, the Order sets new quotas for individual groups which will take into account not only their total numbers and emigration rate, as before, but also their application rate in the first tranche. Half of the quota will
be distributed by reference to emigration rates and half by
reference to previous response rates.
The practical effect will be that those occupations which showed strong demand for places in the first tranche
tranche will have a
correspondingly larger share of the quota for the second phase. The groups concerned include accountants and auditors; medical
doctors and Legai
Legal professionals in the general vuuupallunal class, and the Army and immigration Department in the Disciplined services class. Conversely, those groups which have not been able to fill their quotas, such as managers and administrators
and the Police, will have proportionally fewer places.
Points for outstanding achievements etc.
Other changes to the Scheme are more limited. Experience in the first tranche suggests that the current practice of limiting the number of points to be allocated for exceptional merit OT outstanding achievement awarās (whether occupation-related, of for voluntary work or acts of bravery) has not been fair to applicants with records of long voluntary service or outstanding
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