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For the application of the Montreal Protocol to Hong Kong, the delays in extending application are causing us some embarrassment, and this embarrassment is likely to In September become more acute longer extension is delayed. 1991 the British side informed the Chinese side at the JLG that application of the Protocol to Hong Kong "should be made as soon as practicable",
the Chinese side accordingly agreed in December 1991, to the application of the Protocol to Hong Kong. At the most recent JLG meeting (September 1992), it was clear that the Chinese side were surprised that, despite the protestations of urgency in
and
1991, nothing concrete had eventuated thereafter.
as
It has been
agreed, taking into account JLG sensitivities, that the Rome Convention and the Rome and Montreal Protocols should be extended to Hong Kong as soon
with the possible,
application being by way of
way Orders-in-Council, and that those Orders-in-Council should as soon as possible thereafter be localised by localising legislation. The Chinese side has indicated its general in-principle agreement to this approach, although one or two outstanding issues with relation to the Rome Convention still require settling.
or
This being 80, we really need an Order Orders-in-Council, by the end of this calendar year, if possible, to enable us to proceed with localing legislation to our timetable of Autumn 1993. It seems unlikely that we can afford to wait for any Orders covering all Overseas
We Territories.
need Orders
to the strictly limited the provisions of
without Convention/Protocols,
any additional material, since we only have the consent of JLG to the localising of the provisions of these international
to As such
want to see extended Section 1, and Part II of the Aviation and Maritime Security Act 1990, but not Part III which is additional material not arising directly from the international agreements.
agreements.
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