Exempt Persons:

You may be exempted from joining an MPF scheme, only if you belong to one of these categories:

• Domestic employees;
• Self-employed hawkers;
• People covered by statutory pension or provident fund schemes, such as civil servants and subsidized or grant school teachers;
• Members of occupational retirement schemes which are granted MPF exemption certificates;
• People from overseas who enter Hong Kong for employment for less than 13 months, or who are covered by overseas retirement schemes; and
• Employees of the European Union Office of the European Commission in Hong Kong.