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INTRODUCTION
CONFIDENTIAL
Adaptation of Laws Paper No. 5
Defamation Ordinance (Cap. 21)
August 1993
This paper has been prepared as a basis for consultation in
accordance with the principles for consultation agreed wich the Chinese side at JLG XVII on the way in which the British side intends
to adapt certain provisions in Hong Kong laws in order to ensure that
they are consistent with the Basic Law.
2.
(Cap. 21),
This paper deals with the Defamation Ordinance (Cap. which concerns the law respecting defamatory words and libel.
3.
The British side envisages that the proposals set out below
would be incorporated in a schedule of amendments to be attached to a
Bill for enactment by the Hong Kong legislature before 1 July 1997.
The Bill would come into force on enactment but the amendments would
take effect on 1 July 1997.
PROPOSALS
4.
follows
The British side proposes to adapt the Ordinance as
(a)
delete paragraphs 1, 4 and 5 of Part I of the Schedule;
(b)
delete the definition of legislature' in section 2;
(c)
replace paragraph 2 of Part I of the Schedule by a
paragraph referring to an international which (the People's Republic of China is
organisation of
a member or of
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