Un Treaty Series, Vol. 1728

Text 2.

Regulations to be observed by all students

1. All University courses are full-time, unless a different requirement is specifically laid down in the Regulations governing a particular course. It is expected that, in the vacations, all students will undertake academic studies or obtain approved professional experience. No occasional paid work during the vacations shall be allowed to conflict with this academic duty (...).

3. Every full-time student is required to keep the three University terms every year in full. Any student who wishes to be absent from the University for any term must first obtain the permission of the Head of the School or Department or, where appropriate, the appropriate officer of the University concerned.

Regulations of the University of Birmingham, England

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Parliamentary Assembly Council of Europe Assemblée parlementaire Conseil de l'Europe

Doc. 8878

16 October 2000

Health conditions of migrants and refugees in Europe

Opinion

Social, Health and Family Affairs Committee

Rapporteur: M. Francisco Arnau, Spain, Socialist Group

I. Conclusions of the committee

1. The committee fully supports the proposals put forward by the rapporteur of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Demography and particularly draws the attention of the member states to the need to develop national policies that address more specifically the health needs of migrants, refugees and other displaced persons.

2. The Council of Europe should indeed facilitate this process and develop guidelines in consultation with the relevant governmental and non-governmental organisations (draft recommendation, paragraph 9 ii).

3. Furthermore, migrant workers should enjoy equal opportunities and treatment in respect of employment and social security, in accordance with the relevant international instruments.

4. Finally, the committee points to the “Solidarity Card” recently introduced in Valencia (Spain), which enables illegal migrants living in that region to receive the same medical care as other citizens, as one possible way of guaranteeing this fundamental human right.

Practice section 4

Questions for discussion and practical assignments

1. Give the definition of discourse relevant for translation studies.

2. Suggest reasons for the approach to text analysis in translation based on the principles of discourse analysis.

3. Give the definition of a functional style as it was traditionally accepted by stylistics.

4. What are major functional styles and substyles traditionally singled out in languages by various scholars?

5. Describe specific lexical and grammatical features of official and business discourse.

6. Analyse the texts given below according to the materials suggested in Units 2, 3 and 4 and translate them.

Text 1. An example of the British legal act:

COUNTY COURTS (Penalties for Contempt) ACT 1983

1983 Chapter 45

13-th May 1983

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. In Section 14 of the Contempt of Court Act 1981, after subsection (4) there shall be inserted –

“(4a) For the purpose of the preceding provisions of this section a county court shall be treated as a superior court and not as an inferior court”.

2. (1) This Act may be cited as the County Courts (Penalties for Contempt) Act 1983 (...).

Text 2. An example of an international legal document

Compare this text with its Ukrainian version given in Annex 2.