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Government, by a notification
dated 22 August 1979
addressed to the Depositary, the Secretary General of the
then Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organisation
(the name of which has now been changed to the
International Maritime Organisation),
declared that the
Convention shall apply to the Registers of British ships
registered in ports of register in, inter alia, Hong
Kong. (A copy of this notification is at Annex A.) The
amended text of Article 32(3) of the Convention will
enable a similar notification to be given in respect of
aircraft. The current UK Signatory to the Operating
Agreement is British Telecommunications plc (BT). The
People's Republic of China (PRC) is also a Party to the
Convention.
Its Signatory is
Communications and Navigation Company.
Beijing Maritime
Current Participation
5.
The UK Government consults the Hong Kong
Government on matters relating to INMARSAT which affect
the interests of Hong Kong. In this way the UK Government
is able to act in accordance with Hong Kong's interests.
The Hong Kong Government has SO far not sent
representatives to attend meetings of the Assembly
(Article 12 of the Convention), as members of the UK
delegation. This is because there has So far been no
practical need to do so.
in the future. If
However such a need could arise
it did, Rule 4 of the Rules of