The Hong Kong government asked civil servants to sign a declaration of “support for the Basic Law and allegiance to the Hong Kong SAR”, 129 civil servants ignored or explicitly refused to sign, including 16 disciplined forces officers, the Hong Kong government said they will be ordered to retire.
On January 15 this year, the Hong Kong Government Civil Service Bureau issued a circular to all bureaux and departments, for civil servants employed before July 1 last year to set the oath or sign the declaration requirements, about 170,000 civil servants in Hong Kong to sign the declaration “support the Basic Law, allegiance to the HKSAR”, and within four weeks of sending the letter signed and returned, as heads of departments and other senior positions Also have to take the oath.
The Hong Kong Government Civil Service Bureau said on April 12, has received the vast majority of civil servants to sign the statement, but as of April 1, there are 129 civil servants “ignore, refuse to sign or refuse to return the statement”, including 16 disciplinary forces staff. Twenty-five have resigned or left their posts, and one has been dismissed for his own misconduct.
Hong Kong’s disciplined forces, including the police, fire, immigration, customs, corrections and other five major departments of personnel. Refusal to sign the statement of 16, the authorities did not disclose which disciplinary forces they belong to.
The Hong Kong Government Civil Service Bureau said that the relevant departments have written to ask one hundred and twenty-nine civil servants to explain, and received some of them to reply. The authorities said they could terminate the service of the officers concerned in the public interest and order them to retire.
The Hong Kong government also announced at the same time that it would extend the requirement to sign a statement to officers appointed on non-civil service terms, and plans to implement and announce the arrangements next month.
The Hong Kong government introduced the Non-Civil Service Contract Staff Scheme in January 1999 as a permanent measure to employ people other than civil servants to serve in government departments on short-term contracts not exceeding three years and on flexible terms of employment.
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