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Clause 14

53.

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While Article 22

guarantees the right to

participate in elections, Clause 14 makes it clear that

neither the Executive Council nor the Legislative Council

need be elected bodies.

The Chinese version of the draft Ordinance

54.

This booklet also contains the Chinese version of

the draft Hong Kong Bill of Rights Ordinance 1990.

55.

The Chinese text of the ICCPR, which has been

published in the United Nations Treaty Series, is a text of

other texts according to

equal authenticity with the

In those places where the

Article 53(1) of the Covenant.

draft Ordinance reproduces the authentic English text of

the Covenant, the Chinese version of the draft Ordinance

reproduces correspondingly

the Covenant.

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the authentic

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Chinese text of