6.
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The PRC became a party to the Code on 23 September 1980.
A discussion paper on the British side's proposal for the continued
application of 21 merchant shipping conventions currently applying
to Hong Kong (including the Code) was handed over to the Chinese
side on 3 February 1993. Discussions will in due course take place
in the International Rights and Obligations Sub-group of the Joint
Liaison Group on the action to be taken by the two sides to ensure
the continued application to the Hong Kong Special Administrative.
Region after 30 June 1997 of the international rights and
obligations affecting Hong Kong which arise out of these
conventions.
Meanwhile, it is appropriate that the rights and
obligations arising out of the code should be implemented in Hong
Kong's domestic law by legislation which can continue in force after
30 June 1997.
Proposal
7.
The provisions of the 1982 Act as applied to Hong Kong by
the 1985 order will lapse as part of the law of Hong Kong on 30 June
1997. The British side therefore proposes to introduce a Bill to
localise those provisions. The Bill will append the text of the
Code as a Schedule, and will incorporate the Mandatory Provisions
Regulations, modified as in para. 5 above, in another Schedule.
Regulations will apply
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(a) to liner conferences which have their seat in Hong Kong so
far as they serve the trade between States which are
Contracting Parties to the Code;
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