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The Chief Executive

Members of ExCo

Secretaries and Deputy Secretaries of Departments; Directors of Bureaux; Commissioner against Corruption; Director of Audit; Commissioner of Police

- Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal; and Chief

Judge of the High Court.

The President of LegCo

The final version of the Basic Law adopted in April added:-

Director of Immigration; Commissioner of Customs and Excise; and 80 per cent of the members of the Legislative Council.

All the above posts were also made subject to a new stipulation that holders should not possess right of abode in a foreign country.

5.

In a related move the Chinese have announced that

Hong Kong residents having right of abode in foreign countries will not be eligible to serve on a new Committee to monitor the

operation of the Basic Law which they have decided to establish

in 1997.

Chinese Counter-Measures Threatened

More generally, the Chinese have indicated that they

7.

might:

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