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151.
It is urgent that we prepare for 1997's change in sovereignty by pushing ahead with adapting and localising our laws to bring them into line with the provisions of the Basic Law. A special unit has been established in the Legal
Department to advance
important important work. In the years
this
ahead, we intend to allocate additional funds to the unit to
ensure that work remains on schedule.
152.
We will need to introduce into this Council a large
number of bills in the next three years to localise our
have included ten in the 1993-94
legislation.
legislative
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programme.
There is a great deal to be done,
and not much time to do it, if we are to ensure that we have
a complete set of laws capable of continuing beyond 1997.
If progress
in the JLG does not speed up significantly,
before
there is a nign risk that the work will not be finished
1997, and we will then face a legal vacuum. It would
for us to let that happen, and I am
be irresponsible
determined that we should do everything possible to keep to
our target for this extremely important exercise.
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