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The Pilotage (Amendment) Order 1996 also provides changes to ensure that an apprentice pilot can obtain the necessary experience in handling naval ship after the demolition of HMS Tamar Naval and to update the information of floating docks listed in Table 1 of the Pilotage Order.
Currently the Pilotage Order requires that an apprentice pilot should accompany a licensed pilot to carry out two berthing and two unberthing operations at HMS Tamar Naval Dockyard.
"It is necessary to introduce changes to this provision following the demolition of the naval dockyard in February 1995," the spokesman said.
"As some of the floating docks listed in the order have been sold and tow away, it is necessary to update the list also."
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Comic book to promote rights of the child published
To promote public understanding of the rights of the child, the Committee on the Promotion of Civic Education (CPCE) has produced a comic book to introduce the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child on collaboration with the Hong Kong Committee for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
The Convention was extended to Hong Kong in 1994, a spokesman for CPCE said today (Wednesday): "The significance of the extension of the Convention is that it places Hong Kong under continuing international obligations to protect the rights of children and provide for their interests.
"The Convention obliges signatory states to respect and protect the rights of children as set out in the Convention, such as the right to health care and education, and to protect children from discrimination, abuse and neglect, among other things.
"The promotion of the Convention is part of the human rights publicity programme launched by the Government.
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