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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1992

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THE SECRETARY SAID SOME CONSIDERATION, HOWEVER, HAD BEEN TO THESE MATTERS BUT FIRM CONCLUSIONS HAD YET TO BE REACHED.

MR EASON SAID UNDER THE TRADITIONAL CUSTOMS THE NEW TERRITORIES THROUGH THE MALE LINE.

INDIGENOUS

COMMUNITY,

AND

GIVEN

PRACTICES OF

PROPERTY WAS INHERITED

PART OF

THESE CUSTOMS AND

HE SAID THE SMALL HOUSE POLICY, WHICH WAS AN INTEGRAL THE ADMINISTRATION'S OVERALL POLICY OF RESPECTING PRACTICES, REFLECTED THIS.

MR EASON SAID MALE INDIGENOUS VILLAGERS OF RECOGNISED IN THE NEW TERRITORIES REACHING THE AGE OF 18 WERE ELIGIBLE

VILLAGES FOR AND, SUBJECT TO

ΤΟ APPLY THE FULFILMENT OF ESTABLISHED GRANTED EITHER A FREE BUILDING LICENCE IN RESPECT OF

CRITERIA, WERE THEM OR A SUITABLE SITE ON GOVERNMENT LAND AT CONCESSIONARY PREMIUM ON LAND OWNED BY WHICH THEY COULD BUILD A VILLAGE HOUSE.

0

HAND LANGUAGE INTERPRETATION SERVICE ADEQUATE

OF

IN VIEW OF THE PRESENT AND ESTIMATED FUTURE WORKLOAD, PERMANENT HAND LANGUAGE INTERPRETER POSTS IN THE POLICE FORCE THE JUDICIARY IS UNJUSTIFIED, THE SECRETARY FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE, BARRIE WIGGHAM, SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

CREATION

AND

MR

SERVICE

HONG

MORE

"HOWEVER, IF AND WHEN THE NEED FOR SUCH INTERPRETATION INCREASES SIGNIFICANTLY DUE TO UNFORESEEABLE CIRCUMSTANCES, THE KONG SOCIETY FOR THE DEAF MAY BE REQUESTED ΤΟ PROVIDE

MR WIGGHAM SAID.

ASSISTANCE,

"

IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY DR THE HON HUANG CHEN-YA IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY}, MR LANGUAGE INTERPRETATION FOR DEAF AND DUMB PERSONS INVOLVED IN CRIMINAL WIGGHAM SAID HAND INVESTIGATION AND JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS WAS PROVIDED BY COMPETENT FREE- LANCE INTERPRETERS.

A REGISTRY OF THESE INTERPRETERS IS KEPT BY THE POLICE AND JUDICIARY.

THE

OF THE FIVE INTERPRETERS ON THE CURRENT SPECIALLY ASSIGNED BY THE HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE DEAF FOR COURT AND REGISTER, TWO ARE POLICE WORK.

INTERPRETATION

CALL OUT WERE SERVICES WAS

WAS

IN THE PAST 12 MONTHS, HAND LANGUAGE REQUIRED IN COURT ON 65 OCCASIONS. NO RECORDS OF MAINTAINED

THE POLICE BUT THE REQUIREMENT FOR SUCH RARE.

BY

POLICE AND SERVICE

THE

WAS

MR WIGCHAM NOTED THAT OVERALL, BOTH THE JUDICIARY CONSIDERED THE PROVISION OF INTERPRETATION PROMPT AND ADEQUATE.

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