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Chapter III

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The Basic Rights and Obligations of the Hong Kong SAR Residents

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Article 1

Kong

residents

Hong

include permanent residents and temporary residents.

Permanent

Hong

Kong

residents

include the following persons who have the right of abode in the Hong Kong SAR and have obtained the permanent identity accordance with law:

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in

in

(1) all Chinese nationals born Hong Kong before ΟΙ after the establishment of the Hong Kong SAR;

(2) all Chinese nationals who have ordinarily resided in Hong Kong before or after the establishment of the Hong Kong SAR for a continuous period of seven years or more;

(3)

those

persons of Chinese nationality born outside Hong Kong of persons listed in (1) and (2);

continuous

(4) all non-Chinese nationals who have ordinarily resided in Hong Kong before or after the establishment of the Hong Kong SAR for a period of seven years or more and who have taken Hong Kong as their place of permanent residence;

(5)

under 21 years of persons under

of age who were born of those persons listed in (4) in Hong Kong before or after the establishment of

of the Hong Kong SAR;

(6) all persons who had the right of abode only in Hong Kong before the establishment of the Hong Kong SAR.

Chapter III

The Basic Rights, Freedoms Obligations of inhabitants and other

and other persons the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Article 1:

The

Article 2:

Hong

and

in

Kong

Special Administrative Region Government shall protect the rights and freedoms of inhabitants and other persons in the Hong Kong

Kong Special Administrative Region according to

law.

The provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, as applied to Hong Kong before the establishment of the

Special shall

Hong

Administrative

Kong Region,

continue to be implemented in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

Article 3 :

In implementing the referred to above, the

Covenants Hong Kong

Special

Administrative

Region

Government

shall maintain

the

rights and freedoms as provided for by the laws previously in force in Hong Kong, including:

(a)

freedom of the person;

(b)

freedom of speech;

(c)

freedom of the press;

(d) freedom of assembly;

(e)

freedom of association;

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(E)

freedom to form and join trade unions;

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