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| Traditional Chinese | 中華人民共和國澳門特別行政區基本法 | ||||||||||
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| Portuguese | Lei Básica da Região Administrativa Especial de Macau da República Popular da China | ||||||||||
TheBasic Law of the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (Chinese:中華人民共和國澳門特別行政區基本法,Portuguese:Lei Básica da Região Administrativa Especial de Macau da República Popular da China) is theorganic law that establishes theMacau Special Administrative Region, replacing theEstatuto Orgânico de Macau. It was adopted on 31 March 1993 by China'sNational People's Congress and promulgated by PresidentJiang Zemin; it came into effect on 20 December 1999, following thehandover of Macau from Portugal to China.
In accordance with Article 31 of theConstitution of the People's Republic of China, Macau has special administrative region status, which provides constitutional guarantees for implementing the policy of "one country, two systems" and the constitutional basis for enacting the Basic Law of the Macau Special Administrative Region. The Macau Special Administrative Region is directly under the authority of thecentral government of China inBeijing, which controls theforeign policy anddefense of Macau but otherwise grants the region a "high degree ofautonomy."
Article 144 sets out the amendment process, similar to the Basic Law of Hong Kong, and gives theNational People's Congress the sole power to amend it. Amendments can be proposed by either the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the State Council, or Macau. For Macau to propose amendments, the amendments first need the consent of two-thirds of the deputies of Macau to the National People's Congress, two-thirds of all the members of the Legislative Assembly and the Chief Executive. All proposals needs to be reviewed by the Committee for the Basic Law of the Macau Special Administrative Region, and no amendments can "contravene the established basic policies of the People's Republic of China regarding Macau".
According to Annexes I and II of the Basic Law, amendments could be made to the methods for selecting the chief executive and forming the Legislative Council for the terms subsequent to the year 2009 with the endorsement of a two-thirds majority of all the members of theLegislative Assembly and the consent of theChief Executive. Amendments should then be reported to theNPCSC for approval. The method of amendment is similar to the Annexes I and II of the Basic Law of Hong Kong pre-2021.
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