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PROCEDURE FOR DELIBERATION AND VOTING OF THE THIRD SESSION OF THE SEVENTH NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS ON THE HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION (DRAFT) BASIC LAW

    In accordance with the Constitution of the People's Republic of China and
the provisions of the Rules of Procedure for the National People's Congress of
the People's Republic of China that the procedure for deliberation and voting
on the legislative bills prepared and submitted by a special law-drafting
committee established by decision of the National People's Congress shall be
formulated separately, the Third Session of the Seventh National People's
Congress decides:

    The Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the
People's Republic of China (draft) shall be deliberated at this Session by
various delegations and the Law Committee shall, in the light of opinions
expressed during deliberations by the various delegations, conduct unified
deliberation on it and shall submit to the Presidium a report on the result of
deliberation. The Presidium shall, after deliberation and approval, print it
for distribution at the Session and also submit the draft to a plenary meeting
of the Session for the vote.

    The Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special administrative Region (draft) shall
be voted once as a whole and shall be adopted by a simple majority vote of all
the deputies. The vote shall be conducted by means of pressing the voting
machine. Should the voting machine suddenly break down in the course of
operation, the vote shall be conducted by secret ballot instead.