Laws of the People's Republic of China

    Based on the deliberation report of the Law Committee of the National
People's Congress, the Ninth Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Eighth
National People's Congress has reviewed the proposal submitted by Zheng
Yaotang and other 31 deputies of the National People's Congress which the
Presidium of the Second Session of the Eighth National People's Congress
delivered to the Law Committee for the deliberation.

    The Meeting holds that the last Legislative Council, Urban Council,
Regional Council and District Board of the British Hong Kong should terminate
on June 30, 1997. The electoral arrangements for the last Legistrative
Council, Urban Council, Regional Council and District Board of the British
Hong Kong unilaterally made by the British Government contravenes the
Sino-British Joint Declaration and runs counter to the Basic Law of the Hong
Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China and the
Decision of the National People's Congress on the Method for the Formation of
the First Government and the First Legislative Council of the Hong Kong
Special Adiministrave Region. The Meeting decides that the Preparatory
Committee for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region shall, in accordance
with the Decision of the National People's Congress on the Method for the
Formation of the First Government and the First Legislative Council of the
Hong Kong Special Adiministrave Region, be responsible for preparing the
establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, prescribe the
specific method for forming the first Legislative Council and organize and
establish the first Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special
Administrative Region. The powers and function of the district organizations
of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the method for their
formation shall, in accordance with the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special
Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, be prescribed by law
of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.