18. Apart from serving as reference for the Drafting Committee. the consultation report will also be available to the public pursuant to the decision of the Executive Committee.
19. Although the consultation exercise was interrupted for more than two months as a result of the Beijing incident, with the extension of the consultation period, the actual time for consultation was not reduced. However, taking into account that after this incident, members of the public may put forward new opinions regarding various issues relating to the Basic Law, or need more time for further discussions, the CCBL will follow last year's practice in continuing to collect other opinions or supplementary opinions put forward by members of the public within the one and half months between the expiry of the consultation period and the meetings of the subgroups of the Drafting Committee to be held in mid-December. Even though these submissions will not be included in the CCBL's consultation report, they will be re-directed to the Drafting Committee for reference.
* If there is any discrepancy between the Chinese and the English versions, the Chinese version shall prevail.
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