BLDC, in "A Study of the Political System of the Hong
Kong Special Administrative Region under the Basic Law"
in the Journal of Chinese Law, Vol 2 No 1 p 112.
28. Lu Ping, a deputy director of the State Council's
Hong Kong and Macau Office and a leading member of the
Secretariat of the BLDC, in an address to the Hong Kong
General Chamber of Commerce 26 April 1989.
29.
The current Letters Patent for Hong Kong still
reserve a power of disallowance to the Crown, but it
has not been exercised for a number of years.
30.
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Except for foreign and defence affairs which are
the responsibility of the Central People's Government,
the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region shall be
vested with ...legislative...power...": Section I of
Annex I to the Joint Declaration.
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Statement by Shao Tianren, a Chinese legal expert
member of the BLDC, to members of the BLCC: Reference
paper (4) prepared by the Secretariat of the BLCC.
32. If the provisions of the PRC Constitution which are
to apply to, or in relation to, the SAR had been listed
in the Basic Law, as some critics proposed, they could
hardly have been less than between 50 and 60 articles!
33.
Initially it had been intended that the law governing elections to the NPC should be extended to Hong Kong;
it was later realised that a law which provided that members of the NPC should be elected indirectly by local
people's congresses could have no relevance to a SAR
where it was not intended to establish local people's congresses. Art.20 of the Basic Law now provides that Hong Kong's deputies to the NPC will be elected in
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