TNAG-1445-FCO40-1929-Constitutional-development-in-Hong-Kong-1986 — Page 124

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*†84 Mr David Atkinson (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement of progress on drafting a constitution for Hong Kong.

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Hong Kong's current constitutional arrangements are

contained in the Hong Kong Letters Patent 1917 to 1986 and

the Hong Kong Royal Instructions 1917 to 1986. These

arrangements will end when British sovereignty and

jurisdiction over Hong Kong ends on 1 July 1997. From that

date, Hong Kong will be a special administrative region

of the People's Republic of China. A Basic Law of the SAR

is now being drafted by a Committee of the National People's

Congress of the PRC, in close consultation with Hong Kong

people.

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