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Para. 2(4) of Article 24 of the Basic Law
Speaking Note
The Chinese
between
side will recall that during the
Ambassador Ke Zaishuo and Mr. Galsworthy
on 11
January and between Mr. Shao Tianren and Mr. Fifoot
on 19 January, the British side
inconsistency
Article
and
of
drew
attention to the
between the redraft of paragraph 2(4) of
24, proposed by the BLDC Special Group on Rights
Obligations at its meeting in December, and the terms
sub-paragraph 2 of paragraph 1 of Section XIV of Annex I
to the Joint Declaration. This provides, amongst other
things, for the right of abode in the Hong Kong Special
Administrative Region to be given to
"All other persons who have ordinarily resided in
Hong Kong before or after the establishment of the
Hong Kong Special
Administrative
Region for a
continuous period of 7 years or more and who have
taken Hong Kong as their place of permanent residence
before or after the establishment of the Hong Kong
Special Administrative Region,
"
However,
the redrafted version of
paragraph
2(4) of
Article 24 qualifies further the right of persons who are
not of Chinese nationality to acquire right of abode by
including the provision that they must
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