The Hong Kong Legislative Council passed the bill and agreed to delete or modify the colonial text and expressions such as "Her Majesty of the Queen" and "Governor" in the local legal documents.
Comprehensive Hong Kong Newspaper Xingdao Daily reported that Wednesday (July 10) of the Hong Kong Legislative Council passed the draft of the Grammar (Miscellaneous Regulations) of 2024, and agreedAdapt to modification, and abolish many outdated articles at the same time, including abolished international conventions, and the service that Hong Kong Post has stopped.
The amendments proposed by the draft include: "the Government of the Central or Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in accordance with the Basic Law and other laws" replaces "His Majesty of the Queen, his hereditary heir or successor", and "Chief Executive" instead of "Chief Executive".The Governor "replaced the" colonial "with" Hong Kong ", replaced the" Legislative Council "with the" Legislative Council ".
The draft also uses the words "Hong Kong, China, and Taiwan" in the regulations of merchant ships (at least passenger space) to replace "China" in the "Mainland" to avoid the meaning of implicit sovereignty.
Zhang Guojun, the director of the Law of the Hong Kong Department, said that the draft proposes technical and unsuccessful amendments to different laws, and adapts to multiple laws.Hong Kong law.He said that the Hong Kong Government will continue to make legal adaptation amendments and renewal laws.
Liang Meifen, chairman of the Draft Committee, said that Hong Kong legal documents often see words that are closely related to the colonial, such as His Majesty, Royal Family, Loyalty to the British Government, Loyalty, etc. These words are like brainwashing, making young people misunderstand Hong Kong and there are still there is still Hong Kong and there are still in Hong Kong.Many aspects have not returned to the motherland and even misunderstood the "one country, two systems".
She said that in 2019, "Some people proposed 'Hong Kong independence', and some people held the rice flags and said that they were still loyal to the emperor."
Liang Meifen said that the revision is just the beginning. I hope that the law of law and the government departments will be quickly whip, so that the legal terms will comply with the basic law and the Chinese constitution in different articles. It is expected that the bureaus will provide revisions on the overall law.
