The British Nationality (Hong Kong) (Selection Scheme) (Amendment) Order 1993

9.  For Article 21 there shall be substituted—

“21.— (1) Within the quota prescribed for the disciplined services class by Article 5(1), the quota for each disciplined service in the second period shall be determined by the following formula—

where—

a

A is the number of persons who appear to the Governor to be in that disciplined service on the common date, minus the number of persons in that service whom the Governor has invited or intends to invite to apply in the sensitive service class;

b

B is the total number of persons who appear to the Governor to be serving in all the disciplined services on the common date, minus the number of persons in those services whom the Governor has invited or intends to invite to apply in the sensitive service class;

c

C is the estimated number of applicants in that disciplined service in the second period, determined by multiplying the number of persons who appear to the Governor to be serving in that disciplined service on the common date, minus the number of persons in that disciplined service whom the Governor has invited or intends to invite to apply in the sensitive service class, by the application rate of that disciplined service in the first period;

d

D is the total number of applicants in all disciplined services in the second period as determined by the Governor;

e

E is one half of the maximum number of applicants in the disciplined services class who may be recommended in the second period,

f

in this Article “application rate” in relation to any specified disciplined service means the percentage of persons in that disciplined service on the common date of the first period who have applied under the scheme in that disciplined service in the first period.

(2) Such of the quota in the first period as was specified by direction to be applied to the disciplined services class and which remains unused at the end of the first period, shall be carried forward to the disciplined services class quota in the second period.

(3) The Governor may, at any time in the second period, transfer such of the quota in any disciplined service which remains unused, or which in his opinion is likely to remain unused, in the second period to one or more of the other disciplined services.”.