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Chinese constitution to apply to Hong Kong after 1997?
Conflict between Basic Law/Chinese constitution?
Possible
of Chinese
21. We expect Basic Law to make
Constitution apply to Hong Kong.
will conflict with the Chinese
drafting the Basic Law and will
Agreement makes absolutely clear that socialist system and policies practised on mainland will not be practised in Hong Kong after 1997.
clear which provisions
Cannot conceive that the Basic Law
Constitution. The Chinese will be
ensure that it does not conflict.
Responsibility for interpretation of Basic Law?
Powers of
22. The Basic Law will be one of the laws of the Hong Kong Special
Administrative Region. The Courts of the SAR must decide cases in
accordance with those laws.
final adjudication will be
vested in those courts. The agreement does not however say which
court of the SAR i s to have the final responsibility for the
interpretation and application of the Basic Law. Key point
Basic Law will embody Chinese policies for
Joint Declaration and elaborated in Annex 1.
is the
in
Hong Kong set out
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