The Legislative Assembly Electoral Affairs Committee (CAEAL) said yesterday that in the case of any discrepancies between the Chinese and Portuguese versions of a piece of legislation it is lawmakers’ original legislative intent that reigns supreme.
The government-appointed committee also said that in such cases it was not a matter of which of Macau’s two official languages was to be accorded prevalence over the other.
Moreover, the committee pointed out that Decree-Law No. 101/99/M gives equal ranking to Macau’s two official languages concerning the validity of legal documents.
