China's Top Legislature to Discuss Hong Kong's Jurisdiction Over Huanggang Port Area
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China's National People's Congress Standing Committee will review a bill next week to grant Hong Kong jurisdiction over its designated area at the redeveloped Huanggang Port in Shenzhen, set to open 24-hour operations in July.
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China's top legislative body will discuss a bill to authorize Hong Kong's jurisdiction over part of the redeveloped Huanggang Port in Shenzhen, which will adopt a "co-location" arrangement when it opens next month.
China’s top legislative body will discuss a bill next week to authorise Hong Kong’s jurisdiction over part of the redeveloped Huanggang Port in Shenzhen that will adopt a “co-location” arrangement when it opens next month.
The meetings to be held by the National People’s Congress Standing Committee between June 23 and 26 in Beijing were announced on Tuesday after its chairman, Zhao Leji, chaired a discussion at the Great Hall of the People in the capital.
According to state news agency Xinhua, the standing committee’s coming session will review a bill regarding a decision to “authorise jurisdiction over the Hong Kong Port Area at Huanggang Port and its related extended areas”.
The proposed agenda will also include reviewing a progress report on a pilot scheme that allows Hong Kong and Macau legal practitioners to obtain mainland Chinese qualifications and practice law in the nine mainland cities of the Greater Bay Area.
The meeting came ahead of the scheduled opening of the redeveloped Huanggang Port Building next month.
The new complex, located in Shenzhen, will replace the existing Lok Ma Chau/Huanggang crossing as the only 24-hour link between Hong Kong and Shenzhen.
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- What are the specific extended areas mentioned?
- What are the implications for legal practitioners?
