Introduction
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(4th Draft Consultation Paper]
LOCALISATION OF UNITED KINGDOM MERCHANT SHIPPING ENACTMENTS
Liner Conferences
July 1993
This paper has been prepared as a basis for consultation
in accordance with the three principles for consultation agreed at
the eighth meeting of the Sino-British Joint Liaison Group, on the
way in which the British side intends to localise certain provisions
in United Kingdom enactments which apply to Hong Kong. The
enactments covered by this paper concern the Convention on a Code of
Conduct for Liner Conferences.
Background
2.
The United Kingdom signed the Convention on a Code of
Conduct for Liner Conferences at Geneva ("the Code") on 6 April 1974
and ratified it on 28 June 1985. In order to be able to ratify the
Code the United Kingdom enacted the Merchant Shipping (Liner
Conferences) Act 1982 ("the 1982 Act") which in respect of the
United Kingdom empowered the Secretary of State to make appropriate
regulations for giving effect to the Code and made certain ancillary
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