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More importantly, since the agreement provides that, broadly speaking, the laws previously in force in Hong Kong will continue in force after 1997, it is important that Hong Kong should by then have a body of laws which
can stand on its own, quite separate from UK law.
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[It may be helpful if I give an example of the type of
operation which will be carried out under this paragraph. As it happens, the Carriage by Air Act 1961 which among other things provides for the regulation of aircraft and aircrew, is a good example. At the moment this Act forms
part of the law of Hong Kong. By 1997 it will be necessary for Hong Kong to have its own freestanding
legislation in this as in other fields. To make this
possible, this Act will have to be repealed in so far as
peragraph; it therefore it applies in Hong Kong: this could be done either
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directly by an Order, or by an Order authorising the legislature in Hong Kong to do so. The latter would then replace it with an ordinance of their own. Finally, it
would be necessary to make some amendments to the Act as
it applied in the UK. Otherwise it might for instance happen that a pilot licensed under the new Hong Kong legislation would find himself unable to land an aircraft in the UK because the UK Act still specified that pilots
om Hong Kong should hold a British licence.
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