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in the same" is to provide for the legality of administrative

as well as legislative action after 1997.

4.

Saving. The final article is designed to protect the

rights of the Crown in the New Territories under the 1898 Treaty

(under which the New Territories were leased from China), and thus to counter any accusation that in providing for indeterminate leases we envisage that they might end before 1997 as well as

after that date.

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