10.
A power of interpreting the Constitution is vested
in the Standing Committee of the NPC, but that would
not appear to preclude the NPC itself from supplementing
the law or interpreting it. See also "Lawmaking in China"
by Tao-tsia Hsia and Johnson in East Asian Executive Reports, January 1987.
11.
A special administrative region is a totally different
creature from the autonomous regions or national autonomous
areas which have long been a feature of the local government
of the PRC and are an integral part of the centralist
socialist structure of the state.
12. The second report of the Foreign Affairs Committee
of the House of Commons HC 281-1- expressed the view
that the Basic Law should set out clearly what articles
of the PRC Constitution will apply to the SAR and stated
that "The Basic Law must be the "son" not of the PRC
Constitution, but of the Joint Declaration". The Committee
also suggested in the context of the draft provisions
for the interpretation of the Basic Law that there should
be a "Joint Constitutional Court situated in Hong Kong".
13. Peng Zhen, note 8 above.
14 Wu Jianfan, a Chinese legal expert member of the
BLDC, in The Journal of Chinese Law, Vol 2 No.1 p.68.
15. Art.151 of the Basic Law; see also Art.116.
Agreement has already been reached that, in addition
to continuing its separate participation in GATT and
the Multifibre Arrangements, Hong Kong will participate
in the Customs Cooperation Council and other international
organisations or arrangements, shall retain a separate
postal administration and meteorlogical service with
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