Select a treaty list most appropriate for your
research from those below. Scroll down to locate treaty and
click on link to treaty data record. Each record includes
information on applicability to Hong Kong and the PRC before
and after 1 July 1997, declarations and notifications, implementation
in Hong Kong and links to websites containing treaty texts
and other subject related information.
Treaty
Texts
Texts of most multilateral treaties are available on-line
at one or more websites. Each database entry contains
a link to a site containing the text of a treaty where
available. It should be noted that the United Nations
Treaty Collection is now only available by subscription
(http://untreaty.un.org). However a number of texts
of multilateral treaties are availablefree of charge
at the Fletcher
School of Law and Diplomacy Multilaterals website.
Texts of bilateral treaties are available at the Hong
Kong Department of Justice website.
Letters of notification of treaties
applicable to Hong Kong sent by the Governments of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the People's
Republic of China to the United Nations, 20 June 1997.
UK
Letter of notificationlisting multilateral treaties
applicable to Hong Kong prior to 1 July 1997. This
includes a list of treaties for which the Government
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland ceased to be responsible for the international
rights and obligations arising from their application
to Hong Kong. Annotations (in
green text) have been added by the Centre for Comparative
and Public Law.
PRC
Letter of notificationlisting multilateral treaties
applicable to Hong Kong after 1 July 1997. This
includes two lists of treaties which are applicable
to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region from
1 July 1997 (as of 20 June 1997) contained in Annexes
I and II below. Annotations (in
green text) have been added by the Centre for Comparative
and Public Law.
Annex
I to the PRC letter of notification above. List
of multilateral treaties to which the PRC was a party
at 20 June 1997.
Annex
II to the PRC letter of notification above. List
of multilateral treaties to which the PRC was not a
party at 20 June 1997.
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