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Adaptation and Localisation of legislation
Thank you for your note of 20 September 1993.
on the way forward we should
Regarding the recommendations your paragraph 8, I agree entirely that
with proceed
all speed to prepare and hand over adaptation proposals to the Chinese side While
and keep up the momentum. this is basically legal work and each proposal has to initiate from LALU, my staff in Division 3 of CAB will render full cooperation in the further processing of the proposals for consultation with the Chinese side and for subsequent enactment. I understand that the AG has agreed to sponsor the bills in LegCo.
3.
As regards a detailed legislative timetable for putting into effect both our adaptation and localisation of laws programmes, I attach at Annex A a tentative programine for introducing all 29 localising bills expected to be required before 1997, and at Annex B a short note setting out our estimate of the number of adaptation bills and how this has been arrived at. If you agree to the approach, we will try to arrange for enough legislative slots to be reserved over the next 3 to 4 years, and aim for an even spread of the slots during each legislative session. will similarly localising bills in the 1994-95 and 1995-96 sessions.
necessary slots for
4.
We should
adaptation
bill
Our
bid for the
probably not
We the
proceed with the first on a unilateral basis until March 1994 six months after we have handed over to the Chinese side
first consultation papers under the new approach. also depends
Much on when we are able to hand over the last proposals for inclusion in the Schedule to the first such bill. We would want any unilateral action to be fully justified on political
as well as practical grounds.
Perhaps
we can October 1993.
discuss
this further at our meeting on 8
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(Michael C. C. Sze
Secretary for Constitutional Affairs
29 September 1993
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