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The effect of this amendment
I will now consider Amendment No.. would be to make Orders in Counc under paragraph 3 of the Schedule subject to positive rather than negative resolution procedures.
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raised by my hon friend the Member for Chiselhurst the Second Reading who asked what areas the Orders in Council under this paragraph might cover. He suggested that they might include
for icial system, education and the freedoms
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The purpose of this paragraph is not to deal with these crucial subjects for the future of Hong Kong. Orders in Council under this
make larming paragraph will deal with the largely technical subjects necessary in
with CONBOQUENce of the termination of sovereignty and jurisdiction.
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to following by all of which and wanny Hagne, will need to be carefully studied to the extent to when they may require adaptation in the are of Hong Kong
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Hong Kong This dom A Both for t remove Hong Kong from their schedules. It would obviously be inappropriate that Hong Kong should continue to be referred to in UK statutes after 199.7.
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There may well be a very large number of such amendments. Even if as many as possible were to be grouped together in Orders in Council
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