is my English mada mada dane, or is it their fault?

[pez]

4 (1) Subject to regulation 7, no road hump shall be constructed or maintained in a highway unless-

(c) the highest point on it is not less than 25 millimetres nor more than 100 millimetres higher than an imaginary line parallel to the centre line of that carriageway connecting the surface of that carriageway on one side of the road hump to the surface of that carriageway on the other side of the road hump and passing vertically below that point

(from "The Highways (Road Humps) Regulations 1999")

It took me literally 5 minutes to decipher this as "the road hump must be between 25 - 100mm in height, measuring from the carriageway surface".

Oh, the wonders of English!

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[spiritaway.livejournal.com]

XD I am so used of this long version of english sentence when I have to draft a legal contract... which I wonder why cant all these legal wordings be concise and precise rather than beating around the bush.