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HONG KONG AGREEMENT: LEGISLATION:
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A paper on legislation relating to the Sino-British agreement on the future of Hong Kong is being circulated to Ministers by the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. A minor provision of this legislation will need to grant diplomatic privileges and
immunities to the five Chinese members of the
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Sino-British Joint Liaison Group, to be established under the terms of the agreement. This would be dealt with by a short clause in the Hong Kong Bill to the effect that members of the Group nominated by the Government of the People's Republic of China will enjoy the like privileges and immunities as are accorded to diplomatic agents by the Diplomatic Privileges Act 1964.
2. Annex II to the Sino-British Joint Declaration sets
out the framework within which the Joint Liaison Group
It will be established upon entry into
will operate.
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