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The question of the existance and the continuation of this Constitutional Committee as a guarantor of the respect of both the spirit and the letter of the Basic Law is there- fore today a matter of great importance.
10.It is now urgent therefore that the definition and extent of
the powers of this Constitutional Committee should be clari fied and defined in the final text of the Basic Law so that it till be able to function, as Professor François Luchaire abcussed within our said joint Opinion dated 23.9.88., as a Constitutional Committee comprised of members chosen from the ranks of the highest professional, and academic jurists of both Hong Kong and the Peoples Republic of China with juris diction to act as a Supreme Constitutional Court on the same lines as the Constitutional Courts that operate both in East and West Europe (even in the Soviet Union).
11 It will of course be advisable, if not essential, to specify you that the Standing Committee may only interpret a text of the
Basic Law following the decision of the Constitutional Commit tee or Court and such interpretation may only be in full ac cordance with the ruling of the said Constitutional Committee or Court for the Basic Law.
Signed this day of June 1989
Professor François Luchaire Avocat à la Cour
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Christopher K. Hitchell-g
Avocat à la Cour - Barrister-at
Anthony B. Mitchell-Heggs Barrister-at-law
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