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(b)
under
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99
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section 3 of
the Ordinance, the
resumption of the land described in
paragraph 6 of the memorandum, is
required for that public purpose.
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A BILL OF RIGHTS FOR HONG KONG: XCC (90) 28
COMMENTARY
(a) Article 22
(b)
in Public
following
of the Bill: Right to Participate
Life
There were dangers in not
precisely the wording of the
International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights (ICCPR). It would be preferable to let
local electoral laws
identify who could
exercise such
rights.
This would most
probably be viewed by
the
courts
as
constituting
a
reasonable
restriction in
relation to Article 25 of the ICCPR.
Entrenchment of the ICCPR in the Letters
Patent was
mirror-imaging entrenchment in the
draft Basic Law.
Care should be taken not to
present either the Bill of Rights or the ICCPR
as taking precedence over
constitutional
documents such as the
Letters Patent or the
Basic Law.
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