TNAG-2174-FCO40-3111-Hong-Kong-Bill-of-Rights-1990 — Page 189

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