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law should fully incorporate the International Covenants remains to
be settled.
(v) Power of interpretation of the Basic Law (Article 157, formerly 169): Significant progress. The revised draft leaves the final power of interpretation with the NPC but defines the
jurisdiction of the SAR Courts more generously than in the first
draft, in particular by apparently leaving the decision when to
refer cases to the Hong Kong courts.
(vi) Economic policy provisions (Chapter V): The provisions
remain in the text in terms which would make them justiciable.
(vii) Political System: The new "mainstream formula" which
emerged was generally condemned by the "liberal" lobby in Hong Kong
as too conservative.
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