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GOVERMENT HOUSE HONG KONG.
WED 16 JUN 93 13:32
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4.
1977.
The United Kingdom
extended the Paris convention
and its additional Protocol to Hong Kong as from 22 March In order to implement the Convention and Protocol in Hong Kong, the United Kingdom extended the relevant
provisions of the 1902 Act to Hong Kuny by means of the Nuclear Installations (Hông Kung) Order 1972,
made which
TWO further Orders in Council were subsequently amended the law applicable to Hong Kong in liability for carriage of nuclear material,
of
respect
namely-
(a)
the Nuclear Installations (Hong Kong) Order 1983
(c)
This
refleotcd
ancndments to the 1965 Act
It substituted
made by the Energy Act 1900.
special drawing rights for pounds sterling as the
unit.
lower limit QI
means
alco
for expressing the compensation payable for damage or injury, before compensation can be awarded for damage to the
of transport involved in an occurrence. It cmpowered the Governor of Hong Kong, with the approval of the Secretary of State, to raise that limit and clarified the meaning of injury for purposes of the 1965 Act, by applying to Hong Kong certain provisione of the Congenital Disabilities (Civil Liability) Act 1976; and
the Nuclear Installations (Hong Kong) (Amendment) Order 1986
This
compensation
provided for the lower limit of
for injury or damaye tu be calculaten in the IIong Kong dollars equivalent or special drawing rights, rather than the pounds sterling
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