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OP Date23/10/89

SERIAL NO;2773

PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

For WRITTEN ANSWER on

26/10/89

Head of

LIKD

Please submit :-

a draft Answer &

background

to Parliamentary Unit

10

before

NOON 25/10/89

to P/S

PARTY

La

MR. MAUDE

(Minister)

TEXT OF QUESTION :-

MR CHRIS SMITH. (ISLINGTON SOUTH) To ask the Secretary of State/HMG; whether, in the light of the provision in the law of the People's Republic of China that allows any person to call for the retrial of convicted persons, he has taken or proposes to take steps to protect prisoners in Hong Kong in 1997 from the use of his law against them; and if he will make a statement.

for answer by

MR. MAUDE

(Minister)

ANSWER:

HKD. 383/2.

for approval by

NOON

26 OCT 1989

PQSR REPLY (s)

Under the provisions of the Joint Declaration and the

draft Basic Law, Hong Kong will retain its own

separate criminal laws and legal system after 1997.

Annex III of the Basic Law specifies six Chinese national laws which will be extended to Hong Kong

after 1997. The law mentioned in the question is not

one of them.

copy to

Private Secretary

PS/

(Minister)

Parliamentary Clerk

authorised

(Head of Dept.)