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DRAFT: minute/letter/teleletter/despatch/note
FROM:
Sir W Harding
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Reference
HKK 124/3
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SUBJECT:
AMENDMENT TO LETTERS
PATENT GOVERNING GRANTS OF LAND IN
HONG KONG
The Agreement between the UK and China on the future
of Hong Kong provides that leases of land in the
territory granted and renewed by the Hong Kong Government
may now extend beyond 30 June 1997, the date on which
British sovereignty and jurisdiction over Hong Kong will
end.
The Hong Kong Letters Patent at present require that
grants of land in the territory should be made by the
Governor in The Queen's name. The exact provision, in
Article XIII, is as follows:
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