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in any event provides for those provisions to be applied. All the Bill of
Rights does, both before 1997 and after 1997, is to give direct effect to
rights which exist anyway because of Hong Kong being a signatory to or
subject to the Convention, and after 1997 being provided for in the Basic
Law. So I think it is based on a misunderstanding of what the Bill of
Rights is intended to achieve. It is simply intended to import into Hong
Kong law, say, both before and after 1997 the detailed provisions of the
Convention.
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58.
Mr Rowlands
What objections will the Chinese have to the enactment of this
Bill of Rights?
(Mr Maude) It is open for the Chinese to comment on the provisions.
It has been going through a consultation procedure and
59.
Then they have no veto on this, you will proceed with this?
(Mr Maude) It is going to be subject to amendment and perhaps
amendment in the Legislative Council, but it is a piece of Hong Kong
legislation which is going to go through the Hong Kong legislative process.
60.
Mr Lawrence
But if Article 39 of the Basic Law makes provision for the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and labour conventions to
be part of the laws of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, what
actually is the purpose of the separate Bill of Rights?
(Mr Maude) The purpose of it is to import those provisions directly
into Hong Kong law.
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