The Hong Kong (Legislative Powers) (Amendment) Order 1993

Statutory Instruments

1993 No. 3145

HONG KONG

The Hong Kong (Legislative Powers) (Amendment) Order 1993

Made

16th December 1993

Laid before Parliament

10th January 1994

Coming into force

31st January 1994

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 16th day of December 1993

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by paragraph 3 of the Schedule to the Hong Kong Act 1985(1) and all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Hong Kong (Legislative Powers) (Amendment) Order 1993.

(2) This Order shall come into force on 31st January 1994.

Additional powers of the legislature of Hong Kong

2.  The Hong Kong (Legislative Powers) Order 1986(2) shall be amended as follows—

(a) In Article 2, after “(iii) admiralty jurisdiction”, the full stop shall be replaced by a comma;

(b) In Article 2, at the end there shall be added:—

“(iv) fugitive offenders,

(v) intellectual property,

(vi) protection of trading interests,

(vii) outer space.”.

N.H. Nicholls

Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the order)

This Order amends the Hong Kong (Legislative Powers) Order 1986 by conferring on the legislature of Hong Kong the power to repeal or amend enactments of the United Kingdom, insofar as they are part of the law of Hong Kong, which relate to fugitive offenders, intellectual property, protection of trading interests and outer space; and to make laws having extra-territorial operation in these fields.

(1)

1985 c. 15.

(2)

S.I. 1986/1298.