TNAG-1602-FCO40-2198-Future-of-Hong-Kong-Basic-Law-1987 — Page 175

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4.4

Private Enterprises and Quasi-Government Organisations.

The Basic Law should stipulate that private enterprises and quasi-government organisations should have. the right to freely establish offices in overseas countries/areas.

4.5 Finance

4.6

It was suggested that the present arrangement for financing of overseas offices should continue but some arrangements will have to be drawn up to cover situations where the HKSAR overseas offices undertake some duties for the Central Government where the Central Government does not have representative office or vice versa.

Location

i) It was suggested

that HKSAR overseas offices should not be in the same premises as the Chinese Embassies 50 demonstrate HKSAR's autonomous status from China.

ii)

4.7

Another

as to

view suggested that if it is

regarded as advantageous by the HKSAR for it to set up its Owni separate Overseas offices in the same premises as the Embassies this would be equally satisfactory.

Chinese

Work of the official overseas offices in respect of issuing of visas for entry into the HKSAR

4.7.1 It was suggested that the HKSAR Government should have the right to confer the visa-issuing power to its overseas offices

(Please refer to the final report on Immigration Control; Issuing of Passports and Travel Documents of the Subgroup on External Affairs)

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4.8 The duty of the representational office of China/the HKSAR

in states where one of them is not represented:

4.S.1 In countries where HKSAR is not represented but China is:

It was suggested some of the duties of the HKSAR's overseas offices could be taken up by the Chinese

representational

office at the request of the HKSAR

Government to the Central Government.

4.8.2 In countries where China is not represented but HKSAR is:

4.9

It was suggested the HKSAR overseas office could take up some of the duties of the Chinese overseas office at the request of the Central Government-

The

establishment of HKSAR overseas

representational offices

in the following:

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