BASIC LAW (11)
Date
Statements by Chinese
Officials
Newspaper Comments/Editorials Non-Communist
Communist
14.1.86 (cont'd)
15.1.86
16.1.86
Statements/Com
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by others
Lu Ping: The SAR court should naturally have the power to interpret the Basic Law, but whether its interpretation is final has yet to be discussed. He agrees with a suggestion that the Basic Law should be able to explain itself without reference to the Chinese
Constitution.
Financial Daily: The right of judicial interpretation of the Basic Law should be vested in HK if HK was have judicial
independence and the power of final
to
adjudication as provided by the Joint Declaration.
Wen Wei Po: Mr Lu Ping's visit to HK will help promote in-depth discussions on the
drafting of the Basic Law.
Law Society chairman Brian Tisdall: The Basic Law should be published section by section because publishing it all at once will give HK people an indigestable meal.
(report) The HK Daily News: The BLCC executive committee will discuss at its meeting on January 18 a proposal
to tape record all proceedings of its meetings, in case there were post-meeting controversy over the proceedings.
BLCC member Justice T.L.
Yang: The Basic Law should stipulate that local courts will have the power of inter- pretation over parts of the Basic Law concerning HK's internal affairs.
HKU Professor Steven Cheung: HK's Basic law is bound to conflict in
some areas with the
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