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certificates to all Ships registered in

Dependent Territories (including those exceptionally

allowed to register in a port of a 'lower' category).

iii

Dependent territories would be able to choose the

option (category) that suits them best without

losing the advantage of recognition as a "convention"

port.

Other matters relating to registration and shipping

·31.

The proposed new qualifications for ownerhsip of British

ships are set out in paragraph 18. The main change affecting

Dependent Territories is in the requirement that, normally,

ships should be registered in the territory in which the owning

company is incorporated. Greater flexibility is envisaged in the

case of private ownership to take account of particular circum-

stances.

32.

It is proposed to retain the provisions of Sections 89

and 90 (Registry in Colonies) and Sections 735 and 736 (Powers

of Colonial Legislature) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894.

The Channel Islands and the Isle of Man

33.

Under the new framework the same choice of Categories

of port of registry would be available to the Channel Islands

and the Isle of Man as to overseas Dependent Territories.i

However, the burden of maintaining separate marine administrations

in order to be able to register ships and to control and

supervise them would seem to be less justified in view of their

proximity to the United Kingdom, which itself maintains a

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