Paragraph 12 Experience

Subject to the provisions of this Article, an applicant shall be allocated 10 points for each year’s service completed before the common date in the approved occupation or within the specified occupational group into which the specified occupation falls (in this article referred to as “relevant experience”).

In relation to applicants in the managers and administrators occupational group specified in paragraph 1 of Annex 1 (other than applicants who are in service with the Government of Hong Kong) the points to be allocated for each year’s relevant experience shall be determined by reference to the applicant’s average earnings in accordance with the table set out in Annex 3.

In determining the points to be allocated for experience–

There shall be added to the number of points allocated to an applicant under this Article, one twelfth of 10 points (or, in the case of applicants referred to in paragraph (2), one twelfth of the points determined by Annex 3 for a year’s relevant experience) for each complete month’s relevant experience between the date of the applicant’s last completed year of service and the common date.

The Governor may, if he thinks fit in the special circumstances of the applicant’s case, treat an applicant’s experience in service in an occupation or occupational group other than the one in which he has applied as relevant experience.

For the purposes of this Article, a person is on secondment from a relevant occupation if he is for the time being serving temporarily in another capacity under arrangements whereby he is to return when his temporary service ends to service in the relevant occupation or, in the case of a specified occupation, in the occupational group in which his occupation falls.

For the purposes of this Article, “average earnings”, in relation to an applicant in the managers and administrators occupational group, means the average annual earnings which the Governor considers the applicant to have derived from his activities in any occupation within that group during such recent period as the Governor may determine in the circumstances of the applicant’s case.