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The proposed fee revisions will affect only those seafarers who are required to serve on local craft. The impact will not be significant as all the fee items in this Amendment Regulation are to be revised by only 10 per cent to bring them in line with the 1995-96 price level.
The proposed fees are only adequate to recover about 41 per cent of the total cost incurred in providing the services.
The spokesman said measures had been taken to improve the efficiency of both the Examination Section and the Mercantile Marine Office & Seamen Recruitment Office of the Marine Department by re-deployment of staff and streamlining of working procedures: rescheduling of duties, computerisation of various seamen's records and examination data, simplification of application and reporting procedures.
"New operational guidelines and procedures are in hand for the further reduction of time in the processing of examination applications and issuing of certificates," he added.
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Amendments to Strategic Commodities Control List gazetted
Legislative amendments to reflect the updated international controls on strategic commodities were gazetted today (Friday).
The amendments were contained in the Import and Export (Strategic Commodities)Regulations (Amendment of Schedule 1) Order 1996.
A spokesman for the Trade Department said the amendments to Schedule 1 of the Regulations aimed to reflect the updated international controls on the Munitions List and Industrial List, as well as controls on goods of non-proliferation concern goods specified by the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) and the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NNPT).
No change has been made to Schedules 2, 3 and 4 of the regulations which cover respectively articles-in-transit, end-use control and specified activities in relation to the articles specified in Schedule 3, he said.
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.