Reference.....
101)
From: S. Morton
Far Eastern Section Research & Analysis & Department OAB 2/125A
[HKD 241
241)
2.
1990
210 6217
Als Major
HKD
L
HONG KONG BILL OF RIGHTS
1. Please refer to
2.
your
minute of 24 April.
I attach copies of the Hong Kong Bill of Rights and the Chinese text of the ICCPR with the discrepancies between the two texts highlighted. Mr Wye looked at articles 1-11,
1-11, and I at Yarticles 12-24.
in the ICCPR
such
3. The main differences are: The Bill of Rights has article headings and references to the corresponding articles
there are obvious changes substituting 'Hong Kong' for 'contracting party' 'country'
•
ΟΥ
certain articles and clauses in the ICCPR are not included in the Bill of Rights; and causes are added to the Hong Kong Bill which do not appear
in the ICCPR.
30 April 1990.
I have checked
through.
Au
S.Marton
changes
are for good
reasons and reflected in the Linglith text except some menor
Linguistic points:
of Article
140) of ICCPR
archaic character Z replaced by
#in
im
Artide
i0
2 Bill.
CODE 18-77
b) Artide 14(5): "95
replaced by fuller form