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Candidates interested in applying for AO, EOII, ALOII, ATOII, MSOII and TOII posts reminded to apply for Common Recruitment Examination and Basic Law Test

     The Government announced today (August 2) that the next round of recruitment exercises for the posts of Administrative Officer (AO), Executive Officer II (EOII), Assistant Labour Officer II (ALOII), Assistant Trade Officer II (ATOII), Management Services Officer II (MSOII) and Transport Officer II (TOII) will begin in September 2018.

     Applicants for these posts will need to have obtained Level 2 in the two language papers (Use of Chinese and Use of English) or equivalent results and a Pass in the Aptitude Test (AT) paper in the Common Recruitment Examination (CRE) as part of the entry requirements for the posts. In addition, candidates’ performance in the Basic Law Test (Degree/Professional Grades) (BLT) will be one of the considerations to assess their suitability.

     The CRE and BLT will respectively be held in Hong Kong, and Beijing and six overseas cities. The details are set out below:
 

Location Application Period (Hong Kong time) Examination Date
Hong Kong August 3 to August 16 (5pm) October 6 and 13
Beijing and six overseas cities
(namely London, San Francisco,
New York, Toronto, Vancouver and Sydney)		 September 22 to October 5 (5pm) December 8

     Details relating to the CRE and BLT and an on-line application system will be made available on the website of Civil Service Bureau (www.csb.gov.hk/eng/cre.html) during the said application periods, while details of the 2018-19 AO, EOII, ALOII, ATOII, MSOII and TOII recruitment exercises will be separately announced in September.

     Candidates who later submit an application for these posts will not automatically be given places at the CRE. Therefore, candidates who wish to apply for these posts in the 2018-19 recruitment exercises but do not possess the requisite CRE results or equivalent results, as well as those who would like to attempt the BLT, must file a separate application to take the relevant CRE paper(s) and/or BLT during the relevant application periods. Candidates who possess the requisite CRE or equivalent results in the two language papers but do not have a Pass in the AT paper are reminded to apply to take the AT paper in order to fulfil relevant entry requirement. Moreover, all CRE and/or BLT applicants may apply to take the examination in either Hong Kong or any one of the above-mentioned cities outside Hong Kong (i.e. Beijing and six overseas cities), but not both. read more

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Ombudsman invites public views on Buildings Department’s implementation of Mandatory Window Inspection Scheme

The following is issued on behalf of the Office of The Ombudsman:

     The Ombudsman, Ms Connie Lau, today (August 2) invited members of the public to provide information and/or views on the implementation of the Mandatory Window Inspection Scheme by the Buildings Department (BD).

     The Scheme commenced in June 2012. Owners of private buildings aged 10 years or above (except domestic buildings not exceeding three storeys), having received the BD’s statutory notices of the Scheme, are required to arrange inspection and (where found necessary) repairs for the windows of their buildings. As at May 2018, the Office of The Ombudsman had received 50 complaints against the BD for failing to duly implement the Scheme since its commencement.

     Furthermore, the Office has noticed that accidents involving falling windows have occasionally happened in recent years. The windows of some old buildings are dilapidated, but the BD takes a long time to select the buildings as targets of the Scheme. There has also been a case in which a window fell from a building even though it had already been inspected under the Scheme. Such a situation invites concern. The Ombudsman has, therefore, initiated a direct investigation to examine whether there are any inadequacies and areas for improvement in the BD’s implementation of the Scheme. This direct investigation covers:

(1) The BD’s selection of target buildings of the Scheme;

(2) The BD’s procedures for issuing statutory notices of the Scheme;

(3) The BD’s mechanism for monitoring compliance with the statutory notices; and

(4) The BD’s enforcement actions against breaches of requirements of the Scheme.

     To make the investigation more comprehensive, The Ombudsman is now inviting the public to send in information and/or views in writing to the Office of The Ombudsman by September 2, 2018:

Address: 30/F, China Merchants Tower, Shun Tak Centre, 168-200 Connaught Road Central, Hong Kong
Fax: 2882 8149
Email: complaints@ombudsman.hk read more

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