CONFIDENTIAL
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to act as
an
Telecommunications Authority (TA) began in November 1982
a "routing organisation". In a document
entitled "Commissioning Procedures for INMARSAT Standard-A
Ship Earth Stations" published by INMARSAT under the
authority of the Council pursuant to Article 15(c) of the
Convention, "routing organisation" is defined as
organisation, listed in Attachment 4 to the said document,
through which the application for approval of a ship earth
station is forwarded to INMARSAT. The Hong Kong TA (along
with a number of other authorities from territories which
are not states) is listed in Attachment 4 as a routing
organisation. The latest edition of this
document is
extracts of
dated February 1989. (Copies of relevant
Attachment 4 are at Annex C.) In practice this means
that: (a) applications for earth
stations on ships
Approval
registered in Hong Kong have to be submitted to the Hong
Kong TA; and (b) such applications are dealt with by
direct communications between INMARSAT and the Hong Kong
TA without the need to go through the UK or BT.
of the application is notified by INMARSAT to the
applicant and
and the
the Hong Kong TA. An example of such an
application, and the approval of it, is at Annex D. The
above practice has given rise to no objection by any
member of the Organization, and can now be taken to be the
accepted and established practice.
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