Those of us who grew up with traditional Chinese characters will not hesitate to say that 言 (yán) is orthodox and that 讠 is a variant. But those comrades who grew up with simplified Chinese characters may not necessarily agree.
For the avoidance of doubt, any reference in this Ordinance to the commission of an offence by every director and every chief executive of a Scheme member or a bank (including any grammatical variations or cognate expressions of such reference) means that one or more than one of any such director and chief executive may be prosecuted for the offence.