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7.

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The Government

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considered

also including

the

rights contained in the ICES CR. But the provisions of the

ICESCR are different in nature from those of the ICCPR. In

general, they are not rights that can be easily enforced in

For this reason the Government decided to

the courts.

concentrate on civil and political rights in the draft

Ordinance.

8.

parts:

The draft Ordinance is divided, into three main

(a)

The

preliminary

section.

This outlines the

background, and how the rights

rights set out in the

draft Ordinance are to be applied and enforced;

(b)

The Hong Kong Bill of Rights.

This gives the text

of the rights recognised; and

(c)

The reservations.

When the Government of the

United Kingdom ratified the ICCPR, they made the

ratification subject to certain

reservations.

Those reservations which are relevant to Hong Kong

are reflected in the Ordinance

paragraphs 21 and 48-53 below).

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(see also