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THE BORDER OF THE HONG KONG SAR AFTER 1997

1.

The agreement provides for Hong Kong to become a Special

Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China on 1 July

1997. Paragraph 1 of the Joint Declaration refers to the Hong Kong

Area which will become the SAR as including Hong Kong Island,

Kowloon and the New Territories. Thus no changes are made to the

boundaries of Hong Kong.

Section XIV of Annex I to the Joint

Declaration provides that entry into the Hong Kong Special

Administrative Region from other parts of China shall continue to be

resulted after 1 July 1997 in accordance with present practice.

regulared