the c
Date
8.10.85
(cont'd)
BASIC LAW (232)
Statements by Chinese
Officials
Newspaper Comments/Editorials Non-Communist
Communist
kii
Statements/Comments
by others
stipulated that Legco
should not debate the Basic Law. The matter is up to Legco to decide. He cannot see how CS can overrule it.
* BLDC member Liu Yiu-chu: Legco has no right to discuss the Basic Law. The BLDC is a high-powered body under the NPC while Legco is at most a law-making body of the local authorities. It will be wrong to think that Legco should be above a central body of the sovereign state. BLDC members who are also Legco members should realise that the work of the BLDC is far more important than that of Legco, and should therefore give priority
to BLDC work over their Legco duties.
Appeal Court Judge Mr Justice Yang: The greatest problem in drafting the Basic Law will be the difference