the Basic Law are not immutable.
The Joint Declaration
states that the PRC's policies will remain unchanged for fifty years. It does not say that there will be no change in the way those policies will be implemented either insofar as the limits of a high degree of autonomy are concerned or as regards other matters. Just as there is the possibility for the NPC to confer additional specific functions on the SAR, the possibility of the NPC itself setting new specific limits to a particular area of activity cannot be excluded. Provided any such limits avoid matters where the Joint Declaration confers an unqualified role on the SAR, such a change could well be made without contravening the Joint Declaration.
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51. Finally, there are the short term problems problems of the transition from the existing constitutional arrangements to the establishment of Hong Kong as a Special Administrative Region of the PRC. At the outset, the present Hong Kong Administration is faced with a unique transition period and the absence of a local successor.
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