BASIC LAW (44)
Statements by Chinese
Date
Officials
Newspaper Comments/Editorials Non-Communist
Communist
4.4.85 (cont'd)
5.4.85
HK and Macau Affairs
Office Deputy Director Li Hou: The Basic Law drafting committee will definitely include HK people but it will not be appropriate for HK
Goverment officials to
sit on it as this is an
internal matter for
China. It will be
Statements/Comments
by others
the power of
interpretation from NPC, but it is equally impossible not to give the SAR courts this right. Without the right to interpret the Basic Law, HK's legal system simply cannot operate.
HK Affairs Society spokesman Man Sai-cheong: HK SAR courts should interpret the provisions concerning domestic affairs while the provisions which have something to do with the Central Government of China should be a matter for NPC.
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