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refer to civil proceedings. Were you contemplating that the Government might bring civil proceedings or that the proceedings would be in the nature of private litigation arising out of the

If the latter we need a criminal violation of the sanctions.

law.

offence before a contract of carriage becomes illegal in civil The former (governmental civil proceedings) seems to me novel in the context of sanctions though I do see that a civil proceeding applies for enforcement of prohibition orders made

If we were thinking of under Part II of the Industry Act 1975.

following this line we would need to talk to the Lord Chancellor's Department and the Law Officers Department.

Rabat Ammin

R JAYLING

Sol A2

Rm 616 MH

Tel 215 4065

9 May 1980

PS:

Isn't the category of UK owned foreign registered ships

a red herring. Don't all British ships have to be registered under the 1894 Act?