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HONG KONG

ANNEX A

LETTERS PATENT passed under the Great Seal of the Realm amending the Hong Kong Letters Patent 1917 to 1990.

Dated

ELIZABETH THE SECOND, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Our other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING!

Know Ye that

We have declared and by these Presents do declare Our Will and Pleasure as follows

1.- (1) These Our Letters may be cited as the Hong Kong Letters Patent 1991 and shall be construed as one with the Hong Kong Letters Patent 1917 as amended (hereinafter called "the principal Patent").

(2) The Hong Kong Letters

Letters

Patent

1917 to 1990 and these Our Letters may be

cited together as the Patent 1917 to 1991.

Hong Kong Letters

Citation,

and

construction

commencement

(3) These

Our

Letters shall be published in the Hong Kong Government Gazette and shall come into operation upon the day

day immediately following the date of such publication.

2. Article

VII

Letters Patent is amended following new paragraph :-

of the principal by adding the

Amendment

of

ww

Article VII of principal

Letters

"(3) The

provisions

Covenant

on

of Civil

the

Patent.

and

International Political Rights, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 16 December 1966, as applied to Hong Kong, shall be implemented through the laws of Hong Kong. No law of Hong Kong shall be