BASIC LAW (43)
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Officials
Newspaper Comments/Editorials Non-Communist
Communist
4.4.85 (cont'd)
drafting committee, the NPC Standing Committee will consider carefully who are qualified to take up the job.
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by others
interpret the law, particularly those provisions concerning HK's domestic affairs. NPC should of course have the interpretation power but whether it should exercise this power is another question.
Bar Association chairman Denis Chang: The Basic Law is drawn up on the basis of the Chinese Constitution but is not part of the Constitution. Therefore to give HK SAR
courts the power of interpretation will not violate China's sovereign right over HK. NPC, too, should have the power of interpretation but under the principle of "one country, two systems" and bearing in mind China's promise to give HK a high degree of autonomy, China should let HK interpret the Basic Law.
Meeting Point Spokesman Cheung Yuk-tong: It is impossible to take away
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