(e) ADAPTATION OF LAWS
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[If it is suggested that we should have listed the necessary
amendments to legislation in a schedule to the Bill]
Some hon Members
provision
have
enabling t he
suggested that instead of including a
amendment of British legislation by
Order in Council the Government should have included the
necessary changes in a schedule to the Bill.
reasons.
Again this is not possible for a number of very practical
In many cases t he need for legislative amendments
will only become clear in the course of the next 12 years as we
seek to make Hong Kong's law and institutions increasingly self
sufficient - in the time available before the ratification date
it would not have been practical to survey the entire copus of UK legislation as it affects Hong Kong and to list the changes
necessary. Many
- of probably most
be the changes will
technical but since Orders made
made under this section will be
subject to negative resolution procedures, the House will have an opportunity to debate them if it wishes.
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