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language when it is "urgent"

this

is not sufficient to deal

with the danger of unnecessary use of scarce bilingual drafting

resources where the Government's legislative programme contains

items of technical and complex new legislation which have no

direct impact upon the general public of Hong Kong.

to

such

existing

our limited resources

What is the point of devoting

esoteric new ordinances at the expense of those

ordinances which can readily be identified

important to the population as a whole?

as

I very much hope that the assurances which the Ad

hoc Group received from the Government as to the adequacy Of

bilingual drafting resources will prove

to be well founded

otherwise the proposed amendment to section 4C(1)(a) will be of

по practical help to the Bilingual Laws Advisory Committee in

Government takes note of public

its task of

ensuring that

opinion on the question

of

priorities in the translation of

existing ordinances.