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The Kwai Chung and other container terminals would continue to operate under private ownership on land leased from the Government of the SAR. They would continue to provide for the loading and discharge of containers to or from ships permitted by the operators to have access to these terminals.
5. The laws of Hong Kong regulating shipping and the use of the ports and waters of Hong Kong would remain in force after 1997, including those laws that give effect to international maritime conventions binding upon Hong Kong. Any changes in these laws would be with the approval of the legislature of the SAR. The Governments of the United Kingdom and the PRC would co-operate over steps to ensure the continued application to the Hong Kong SAR of those international conventions. Arrangements would have to be made for the continued application to the Hong Kong SAR of those international conventions binding upon Hong Kong prior to 1997 including the International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage (1969) and the protocol to that Convention (1976), the Convention of Facilitation of International Martime Traffic (1965), and the Convention relating to intervention on the high seas in cases of oil pollution casualties (1969), the Hong Kong SAR would maintain its associate membership of the International Martime Organisation as "Hong Kong, China", and participate in future international maritime developments by attending overseas conferences and by negotiating and entering agreements in its own right.
6. Hong Kong (China) to continue to maintain a register of shipping.
7. The Hong Kong administration would continue to have responsibility under the law for the following:
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administration of the ports and waters of Hong Kong, including pollution control and the safety of navigation by lighting, dredging, buoyage, and control of traffic;
registration of ships, and the survey and certification of these ships;
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