Ivana Bacik (Independent)

It might be dangerous to include a line such as this because wherever legislation incorporates the text of a convention, it is always in English. If we start stipulating in express terms "in the English language" in a section such as this in one Bill, the danger is that in other legislation where we have not inserted that phrase, a lawyer in the years to come might claim the French text is the definitive version. It is a technical point but it might be dangerous to start including this if it has not been the practice heretofore.