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language when it is "urgent"
this
is not sufficient to deal
with the danger of unnecessary use of scarce bilingual drafting
resources where the Government's legislative programme contains
items of technical and complex new legislation which have no
direct impact upon the general public of Hong Kong.
to
such
existing
our limited resources
What is the point of devoting
esoteric new ordinances at the expense of those
ordinances which can readily be identified
important to the population as a whole?
as
I very much hope that the assurances which the Ad
hoc Group received from the Government as to the adequacy Of
bilingual drafting resources will prove
to be well founded
otherwise the proposed amendment to section 4C(1)(a) will be of
по practical help to the Bilingual Laws Advisory Committee in
Government takes note of public
its task of
ensuring that
opinion on the question
of
priorities in the translation of
existing ordinances.