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Hong Kong Register of Ships
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CHAPTER 1
Introduction
1.
1.1.
In May this year we published a Consultative
Document (CD) entitled "The Hong Kong Register of
The object of the publication was
Shipping".
(a)
to explain the need for a separate and
autonomous shipping register for Hong
Kong against the background of the Joint
Declaration on the Future of Hong Kong by
the Governments of the United Kingdom and
China;
(b)
to outline a possible framework for the
register; and
(c)
to seek views and suggestions from those
concerned with shipping on our initial
ideas. A copy of the CD is at Annex A.
1.2.
received.
Some thirty written submissions were
These submissions have been broken down into
subject areas. A list of respondents, together with the
breakdown by subject area, is attached as Annex B.