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Land Commission

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8.

A Sino-British Land Commission has also been

established

consult on

under

1 and

five

The

the terms of the Joint Declaration to monitor and

matters provided for in the Join t Declaration.

It held

meetings between 10 July and 17 October 1985, all in Hong Kong.

Commission quickly reached agreement on a series of legal documents

for use in land transactions. The Commission also de termined

the

to 31 March 1986.

The

period was 58 hectares,

land disposal programme for the period from 27 May 1985, when the

Join t Declaration entered

in to force,

programme agreed for this

exercising the provision in

specified annual limit of 50 hectares to be exceeded.

(d)

9.

the

ou t

ten-mon th

the Joint Declaration which allows the

Establishment of Basic Law Drafting Committee by Chinese

National People's Congress

Under paragraph 3(12) of the Joint Declaration the policies of

People's Republic of China regarding Hong Kong, which are set

in paragraph 3 of the Joint Declaration, and the elaboration of

them in Annex I to the Joint Declaration wil1 be stipulated in a

Basic

People's Republic of China by the Chinese National People's

Congress, and they will remain unchanged for 50 years. The Chinese

National People's Congress has appointed a 59-member Basic Law

Drafting Committee, 23 of whose members come from Hong Kong.

Chinese Government has also announced the formation of a Basic Law

Consultative Committee in Hong Kong to reflect the views of the

people of Hong Kong to the Drafting Committee. Her Majesty's

Government have publicly welcomed the Chinese decision to consult

the people of Hong Kong on a wide basis on the drafting of the Basic

Law, and will follow the drafting process closely.

Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the

The

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