membership of the World Meteorlogical Organisation, associate membership of the International Maritime Organisation, and separate telecommunications services.
16.
Art.133 of the Basic Law.
17.
"Nation-wide" and "national" were used at different
times to describe laws which are applicable throughout
the PRC.
18.
19.
Keesing 1984, p.32625.
Para.2.13 of the report of the Foreign Affairs
Committee: note 12 above.
20. Commons Debates, 5 July 1989, cols 309-322.
21. Art.14 of the Basic Law. Two translation changes
were made to the February 1989 text, but they made no
difference in substance.
22.
Art.18 of the Basic Law.
23.
Reported in the Hong Kong monthly 'Wide Angle'
of 18 January 1991.
24.
See Section V below.
25.
Such a provision is by no means uncommon in Socialist
Constitutions.
26. See Liu Yiu Chu: "Interpretation and Review of
the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative
Region" in the Journal of Chinese Law, Vol 2 No.1 p.56.
27.
Xaio Wieyun, a Chinese legal expert member of the
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