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Mr. Schmen: Sir, could the Attorney General advise why it was not considered
ntatives from the commercial interests involved
necessary to include
in this project in the working party?
Whilst
Attorney General: Sir, the project is to establish an independent search and
rescue response centre which will control the allocation and the deployment
of the various components that would take part in search and rescue.
it's true that at that stage commercial ships might well play a part in being
called in to search, it is not thought they have a part play in the centre
itself which would be directing the activities.
Miss DUNN: Can the Attorney General say whether in fact it has been agreed
in principle that something along the line of a rescue and search centre
should be established?
Attorney General: I think I rather put it in this way that the working group
has examined the proposal of the court but at the same time they have put
forward alternative ways of achieving the same objective. And it is those
options which are going to be considered by the Executive Council, I hope,
within a matter of a few weeks.
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