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CHAPTER 7
Equipment Standards.
7.
7.1.
The CD proposed that
"Hong Kong merchant shipping safety
regulations should be amended to provide for
approval by Hong Kong, based on
internationally recognised equipment
standards. It is important that close
governmental control of standards and
approvals should be retained.
Equipment would normally be accepted on a type-approval basis after appropriate tests. Tests conducted by approved independent
national authorities would also be
considered. In every case the Marine
Department would require to be satisfied with
the national machinery for quality control and
standardisation."
There has been general support for this, though one suggestion was made that Hong Kong should go further
than this and develop its own detailed sets of
standards.
Given that acceptable international