TNAG-0305-FCO40-341-Use-of-Chinese-as-official-language-in-Hong-Kong-1971 — Page 36

FCO40 Hong Kong Department Records 聯邦事務部香港部檔案 All

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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

for WRITTEN answer on.

1st December 1971

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Hong Kong

The draft reply should reach the Parliamentary Under-Secretary by Office through your

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Noon Thursday 2/12

Mr James Johnson (Kingston-upon-Hull, West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, under what circumstances the Chinese language is used in the law courts of Hong Kong.

Mr. Anthony Royle,

Court records are kept in English and legal argument

is conducted in English but a litigant or witness whose

language is Chinese may use Chinese in any court

proceedings and the proceedings are interpreted for him.

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