Chapter III
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The Basic Rights and Obligations of the Hong Kong SAR Residents
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Article 1
Kong
residents
Hong
include permanent residents and temporary residents.
Permanent
Hong
Kong
residents
include the following persons who have the right of abode in the Hong Kong SAR and have obtained the permanent identity accordance with law:
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in
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(1) all Chinese nationals born Hong Kong before ΟΙ after the establishment of the Hong Kong SAR;
(2) all Chinese nationals who have ordinarily resided in Hong Kong before or after the establishment of the Hong Kong SAR for a continuous period of seven years or more;
(3)
those
persons of Chinese nationality born outside Hong Kong of persons listed in (1) and (2);
continuous
(4) all non-Chinese nationals who have ordinarily resided in Hong Kong before or after the establishment of the Hong Kong SAR for a period of seven years or more and who have taken Hong Kong as their place of permanent residence;
(5)
under 21 years of persons under
of age who were born of those persons listed in (4) in Hong Kong before or after the establishment of
of the Hong Kong SAR;
(6) all persons who had the right of abode only in Hong Kong before the establishment of the Hong Kong SAR.
Chapter III
The Basic Rights, Freedoms Obligations of inhabitants and other
and other persons the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Article 1:
The
Article 2:
Hong
and
in
Kong
Special Administrative Region Government shall protect the rights and freedoms of inhabitants and other persons in the Hong Kong
Kong Special Administrative Region according to
law.
The provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, as applied to Hong Kong before the establishment of the
Special shall
Hong
Administrative
Kong Region,
continue to be implemented in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
Article 3 :
In implementing the referred to above, the
Covenants Hong Kong
Special
Administrative
Region
Government
shall maintain
the
rights and freedoms as provided for by the laws previously in force in Hong Kong, including:
(a)
freedom of the person;
(b)
freedom of speech;
(c)
freedom of the press;
(d) freedom of assembly;
(e)
freedom of association;
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(E)
freedom to form and join trade unions;
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