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Private
Doivake Decretion
A
requested
NSID
Pohath
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When we discussed Hong Kong on 29 August, you asked what would happen if a given crime was not subject to the death penalty under/Hong Kong law but did carry this sanction under Chinese law - would criminals in Hong Kong
be liable to Chinese penalties after 1997? You also asked if I planned to discuss this matter with the
Chinese authorities.
The Joint Declaration which we signed with China in 1984, and/China's own Basic Law for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region which will enter into force on 1 July 1997, but provide for the continuation of Hong
Kong's legal and judicial systems. The Basic Law makes
clear that the criminal law of the PRC will not be
bolt
applied in the HKSARY in Mong kong after 1997.
Criminals in Hong Kong after 1997 would therefore
only find themselves subject to the death penalty only if
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