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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.

II

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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