SPEECH BY HON PETER C WONG CBE JP LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL 9 DECEMBER 1987
LAND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION BILL 1987
M. PETER C. WONG:
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In my speech during the resumption of debate on the second reading of the Weights and Measures Bill on the 8th of July this year, I mentioned that the Chinese version of that
bill was the first of a series of test runs in the bilingual
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laws project. Today, I am pleased to report that the present
"That is bille. the Land Development Corporation Bill 1987 is
Λ another test run in the further development of the bilingual
project. As in the previous test run, although the bill was
Legislative drafted and gazetted in both English and Chinese and the Lego
convened by my frend, the F. K. Hi Council La Hoc Group in conjunction with the Bilingual egislation astet.
Hoc Group have scrutinised both versions of the bill, only the English text will be passed into law this afternoon. We hope, Si,
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that after a few more test runs, when more experience in
bilingual legislation has been gained we will be in a positiun
to introduce a bill into this Council in bilingual form in the
near future. Sir, we all look forward to that day.
From the linguistic point of view, the Chinese text
of the present bill is a great improvement compared with the
Weights and Measures Bill. The Chinese text does accurately
reflect the English version. Furthermore, the vocabulary, use
of technical expressions and sentence structure in the Chinese
version of this bill are more in conformity with the daily
Chinese usage. I believe any person who can only read Chinese
will find this bill more easily comprehensible.
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