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(vii) Adoptions

Subject to

appropriate and mutual safeguards, the

British

established whereby the courts

side proposes that conditions be

of Hong Kong and

the PRC should recognise each other's adoption

orders.

The

3.

of other

relationship

Law

Working Party also considered in detail a number

aspects of the Private International

between Hong Kong and the PRC, including

recognition of marriages,

bankruptcy and liquidation,

wills and settlements. With the

negotiable instruments and

exception of the mutual recognition of marriages (where

further research is being undertaken), the Working Party

concluded broadly that, for the time being, no action should

be taken, given that the Chinese legal system is still in the

early phases of development.

The British side feels that

these matters should however be kept under review.

4.

The British side believes that the Report puts

forward practical proposals for arrangements for legal and

procedural cooperation in the civil and commercial field

between Hong Kong and China of a kind that could remain in

force after 1997. The kinds of arrangement proposed in the

between

Report are common

systems.

These

different jurisdictions or legal

commercial

arrangements would give