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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1990

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BASIC LAW SET REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE POLICIES.

SECONDLY, HE NOTED THAT THE PROVISION IN

TO AS GUIDELINES BINDING OUT

THE

"KSAR'S

ARTICLE 106 OF THE FUTURE

"AGAIN,

THERE

IS

NOTHING

TN THE

JOINT

DECLARATION

WHICH

"I

PROVIDES FOR SUCH A LIMIT ON THE HKSAR GOVERNMENT.

WAS TO IN ORDER 1997,

TURNING TO THE THIRD OBJECTE OF THE BASIC LAW, WHICH ESTABLISH A WORKABLE SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT, MR LEE SAID THAT TO KEEP THE CURRENTLY THRIVING SYSTEM IN HONG KONG GOING BEYOND THE POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND LEGAL SYSTEMS WERE AN INSEPARABLE WHOLE.

HONG

ARE DECREED BY THE LAWS KONG'S IF "IT FOLLOWS THAT

STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT OR INTERPRETED BY THE

INDEPENDENT CAPITALIST NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS, THEN HONG KONG'S

THAT IT MAY LOSE ITS NOT SYSTEM MAY

WITH THE RESULT SURVIVE,

" HE SAID. IMPORTANT PLACE IN THE TRADING WORLD OF CAPITALIST NATIONS,

OF INTERPRETATION AND ITS STANDING INTEGRITY AND

HE ADDED THAT IN RESERVING THE FULL POWERS PEOPLE'S CONGRESS NATIONAL AND AMENDMENT TO THE COMMITTEE, THE BASIC LAW HAD DEALT A GRAVE BLOW TO THE INDEED THE VERY VIABILITY OF THE POST-1997 HONG KONG.

THROUGH A

MR LEE EXPECTED THAT HONG KONG WOULD GO DIFFICULTIES AND UNCERTAINTIES BOTH BEFORE AND AFTER 1997.

IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO PRESERVE THE

NUMBER

OF

OF

PROSPERITY AND STABILITY AND MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING OF HONG KONG, THE SINCERE CO-OPERATION THE BRITISH AND CHINESE GOVERNMENTS WERE NEEDED, HE CONCLUDED.

CONFLICTS BETWEEN JOINT DECLARATION AND BASIC LAW

NEED TO BE ADDRESSED

* * *

TO

THE

HON RONALD ARCULLI

INCONSISTENCIES

OR OUTRIGHT

QUERIED CONFLICTS

WHAT WOULD

BETWEEN THE RESOLVED, DECLARATION AND THE BASIC LAW AND HOW THEY WOULD BE

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL THE MOTION DEBATE ON THE BASIC LAW IN THE (WEDNESDAY).

HAPPEN

JOINT DURING TODAY

IN SUPPORTING THE MOTION BY THE HON MARTIN LEE, MR ARCULLI ALSO

THE CONCERNING

LINK BETWEEN THE DOUBTS

JOINT RAISED A NUMBER OF DECLARATION AND THE BASIC LAW.

FINAL APPEAL OF THE ONE OF THE DOUBTS WAS THAT THE COURT OF HKSAR WAS NEITHER AS FINAL NOR AS INDEPENDENT AS IT APPEARED.

/*I SAY