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interests from unfair competition, enhance safety and
achieve savings in administrative costs.
Comments on these proposals should be submitted in writing
1984 to:
by
Mr JE O'Shea
Department of Transport
Marine Directorate
Room 3/9
Sunley House
90 High Holborn
London WC1V 6LP
3.
Revision of Part IX of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894
and of other legislation relating to wreck is the subject
of a separate consultative document.
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4.
REGISTRATION OF SHIPS THE NEED FOR CHANGE
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This was discussed in some detail in the Consultative
document of 1981, but it may be helpful to set out the main
considerations which have led the Government to conclude that
the present system needs to be amended in certain respects.
The "British ship" system
5.
The 1894 Act, which itself was based on legislation:
enacted in the 1850s, introduced a common scheme of ship
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