TNAG-0323-FCO40-359-Legislation-for-merchant-shipping-registered-in-Hong-Kong-1971 — Page 24

Mr Lai pd

Reference HKK 21/6

41

WORLD WIDE (SHIPPING) GROUP REGISTRATION IN HONG KONG

1. I regret that the attached draft submission has been delayed by the fact that the latest letter from DTI took 8 days to reach me - ie after I had deemed it necessary to visit DTI to collect a copy. I took the opportunity of this visit to discuss the submission and its supporting papers with Mr Shouler, the DTI officer designated to co-ordinate answers from the seven Divisions dealing with our questionnaire.

2.

I have also shown the submission to Mr Newman of Marine and Transport Division and the draft below incorporates his views as well as those of Mr Shouler. Most points can be supported by written documentation: a very few arise from my discussions. In the welter of information now available the difficulty as in the art of painting is not what to include but how much to leave out. Below, therefore, you will find:-

(a)

(b)

(c)

and

(a)

a draft submission in the form I recommend;

a paper setting out the problems in "chart" form supported by extracts from documents on file;

the 1970 and 1971 editions of file No HKK 21/6;

a Departmental folder containing relevant British legislation.

3. I might add that the latest two documents from the DTI (ie the answers to our questionnaire) are in places devious and contradictory. For this reason the summary

was agreed with Mr Shouler.

J A Clewley

19 August 1971

DD 737719 557664 500M 2/71 GM 3643/2