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TRANSCRIPT B: SELECT COMMITTEE ON HONG KONG
12 JUNE 1989
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SIR DAVID VILSON (CONTD)
At the moment, as you know, what is left for the
Standing Committee of the National People's Congress is
the power of interpretation on a matter of the Basic Law
not the actual court decision which is something outside
the autonomy of the SAR,
Matters which are within the
autonomy of the SAR, even if they are written into the
Basic Law and the case revolves round interpretation of
the basic law, those remain a matter for the Hong Kong
court. Something which is outside the area of autonomy of
the SAR, where the whole case rests on interpretation of a
section of the Basic Law that, in Article 157, goes to the
Standing Committee of the NPC with certain procedures, but
the final adjudication remains with the Hong Kong court.
MR. IVAN LAWRENCE:
Have the Chinese Authorities accepted that
interpretation of the distinction?
SIR DAVID WILSON :
I am not aware that there is any other
interpretation to it.