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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1989

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COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR STORING HE LAWS

A

COMPUTER BILINGUAL THE GOVERNMENT WILL SOON SET UP FOR STORING ALL 31 VOLUMES OF THE LAWS OF HONG KONG.

SYSTEM

AND

BE SET UP IN AN AID ΤΟ QUALITY

OF

THE COMPUTERISED INFORMATION SYSTEM WHICH WILL THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT'S LAW DRAFTING DIVISION IS PRIMARILY

THE EFFICIENCY RESEARCH AND IS DESIGNED TO IMPROVE DRAFTING.

ACCORDING TO THE PROPOSED TIME-TABLE, TENDERS FOR THE WILL BE CALLED IN JANUARY, THE EQUIPMENT WILL BE INSTALLED IN AND THE SYSTEM WILL BE READY FOR OPERATION EARLY NEXT YEAR.

THE LEGAL INFORMATION SYSTEM IS

THE ON WORKING ΤΟ LAWYERS LOCALISATION OF LAWS PROGRAMMES.

USEFUL

COMPUTER OCTOBER

EXPECTED ΤΟ BE PARTICULARLY

AND DRAFTING BILINGUAL

THE

APPROVED (WEDNESDAY} TODAY

THE CAPITAL COSTS

THE FINANCE COMMITTEE NON-RECURRENT COMMITMENT OF $8.44 MILLION TO MEET OF EQUIPMENT, SITE PREPARATION AND OTHER EXPENDITURE.

IN ADDITION, THE STAFF COSTS FOR IMPLEMENTING ESTIMATED AT $1.3 MILLION BETWEEN NOW AND APRIL 1990.

THE PROJECT IS

THEREAFTER THE ANNUAL RECURRENT COST OF MAINTAINING THE IS ESTIMATED TO BE ABOUT $1 MILLION.

SYSTEM

OF ABOUT 20,000 MAINTAINED IS

AT PRESENT, THE LAWS OF HONG KONG CONSISTING

31 VOLUMES IN ORDINANCES, PAGES, INCLUDES 536 MANUALLY BY THE LAW DRAFTING DIVISION.

AND

CONTEXT OF THE

"A MANUAL SYSTEM MEANS THAT THE LACK

TEXT FOR RETRIEVING CROSS-CONNECTING

EXISTING ΤΟ AMENDMENTS LEGISLATION OR MAKING

NECESSITATES LAWS, RESEARCH ON THE TIME-CONSUMING EFFORT," A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN SAID.

CONTENT

OF AUTOMATED FACILITIES

WHEN

NEW DRAFTING OR LAWS,

ANY OTHER AND LABORIOUS

ENABLE NEWLY

ONE OF THE EXPECTED BENEFITS OF THE SYSTEM IS TO ENACTED LAWS OR AMENDMENTS TO BE MORE ACCURATE AND CONSISTENT.

IT SHOULD ALSO REDUCE THE NEED FOR AMENDING LEGISLATION DUE

ERRORS AND OMISSIONS, THE SPOKESMAN SAID.

то

ARE ENVISAGED AND THEN CHANGING

HE SAID THAT EXTENSIVE CHANGES TO EXISTING LAWS IN THE TRANSITION TO 1997. THESE INCLUDE LOCATING ALL REFERENCES TO ENGLISH LEGISLATION AND COLONIAL STATUS.

VOLUMES OF ENGLISH LAWS NOW

FURTHERMORE, AN ESTIMATED FIVE APPLICABLE TO HONG KONG MUST BE LOCALISED AND ENACTED BEFORE 1997.

/ANY POSSIBLE