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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1990

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REQUIREMENT DOES NOT THE ORDINANCE PARENTAL CONSENT FOR PERSONS AGED UNDER 21, BUT NOW PROVIDES THAT PERSON AGED BETWEEN 16 AND 21 WHO NEEDS THE CONSENT OF A PARENT

FOR PERMISSION TO GUARDIAN TO MARRY CAN APPLY TO THE DISTRICT COURT MARRY IF CONSENT IS WITHHELD.

ORDINANCE PROVISIONS) THE AGE OF MAJORITY (RELATED RECEIVED ITS THIRD READING IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ON MAY YEAR.

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IMO SECRETARY GENERAL SEES MARITIME ADMINISTRATION IN HK

THE

INTERNATIONAL

OF THE

MARITIME HAD A MARINE

OF GENERAL THE SECRETARY

TODAY (FRIDAY) WILLIAM O'NEIL, (IMO), MR ORGANISATION FIRST-HAND LOOK AT THE POLICIES, PLANS AND ACTIVITIES DEPARTMENT.

HE WAS BRIEFED BY THE DIRECTOR OF MARINE, MR MICHAEL C.C. ON THE MARITIME ADMINISTRATION IN HONG KONG.

MR O'NEIL

"THE

SHIPPING INDUSTRY

SZE,

IS

OF

THAT MR SZE TOLD SUBSTANTIAL IMPORTANCE TO THE ECONOMY AND PROSPERITY OF HONG KONG".

DEADWEIGHT

TONS OF SHIPPING IS OWNED SOME 65 MILLION MANAGED IN HONG KONG, REPRESENTING AROUND 10 PER WORLD TONNAGE AND EXCEEDED ONLY BY JAPAN AND GREECE.

CENT OF

AND THE TOTAL

OF

SHIPPING WHICH

IS

HOWEVER, ONLY ABOUT SEVEN MILLION DEADWEIGHT TONS

KONG REGISTER IS ACTUALLY REGISTERED IN THE EXISTING HONG PART OF THE BRITISH REGISTER.

SETTING ENABLE

MR O'NEIL WAS BRIEFED ON THE LATEST DEVELOPMENT ON THE

REGISTER FOR HONG KONG TO UP OF A NEW AUTONOMOUS SHIPPING

CONTINUITY OF HONG KONG SHIPS ON THE REGISTER TO OPERATE UNDER THE

BEFORE 1997 AND LEGISLATION APPLICABLE UNDER BRITISH ADMINISTRATION UNDER THAT OF THE HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION THEREAFTER.

SHIPPING REGISTER THE DRAFTING OF THE LEGISLATION FOR THE NEW

KONG HAS BEEN COMPLETED AND THE AUTONOMOUS SHIPPING REGISTER FOR HONG IS EXPECTED TO BE LAUNCHED AT THE END OF THIS YEAR.

IN THE MARINE DEPARTMENT MR O'NEIL BEGAN HIS DAY-LONG VISIT

HOW HEADQUARTERS IN HARBOUR BUILDING, CENTRAL WHERE HE WAS BRIEFED ON

SAFETY AND PREVENTION OF HONG KONG IS GIVING EFFECT TO VARIOUS IMO ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION CONVENTIONS.

ACCOMPANIED BY MR SZE, MR O'NEIL THEN PROCEEDED ON AT ΤΑΙ LAM CHUNG HAU" TO THE SEAMEN'S TRAINING CENTRE TRAINING COURSES FOR HONG KONG'S SERVING SEAFARERS.

BOARD "TIN то INSPECT

/MR O'NEIL