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DSR 11C
Existing powers
of Hong Kong
3. So long as the ceded areas remain under UK
areas
by
the
sovereignty or the remaining of the colony are held
UK under lease, provision for the government can be
made (as at present) under the Royal prerogative by means
of Letters Patent, Orders in Council and Royal Instructions
and the power of Parliament to legislate for the
will not be impaired.
Relinquishment of sovereignty
4. In more recent times, arrangements under which HMG
have ceased to be responsible for the government of a
colony have invariably been sanctioned by Act of Parliament,
whether the territory continued to be part of Her Majesty's
dominions as (or as part of) an independent member of the
Commonwealth or whether it became (or became part of) an
independent republic (or separate monarchy) within the
Commonwealth or a foreign state. There are nineteenth-
century precedents for the cession of territory to a
foreign State by the Crown under the Royal prerogative
without an Act of Parliament but since 1890 the sanction
of an Act of Parliament has been considered appropriate
in each case even though, as a matter of law, it might
not have been strictly necessary and this practice may
well have assumed the strength of a constitutional
convention. If the UK were to agree to relinquish
its sovereignty over the ceded parts of the colony of
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