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GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT
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Mrs S.M. Swift,
Maritime, Aviation and
Environment Department,
Foreign and Commonwealth Office,
London SW1A 2AH,
England.
Dear hus Sunft
comments.
Swift.
12 May 1987
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I have asked to Enten // in the surft's abuce on sich leave,
to ask her O.R.
Tel that I may
to expree by
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The check position with his
Localisation of Merchant Shipping Laws Merchant Shipping (Safety) Ordinance
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I checked today with
Thank you for forwarding Mr. Plant's helpful
Fiona Moore
to give her MKD,ok. ders swift will reply
on her return
It might be useful if I made a couple of general points in response. In drafting the replacement next Tues.
regulations the first priority has been to ensure that the United Kingdom's international obligations are fully protected; the second has been that the language and presentation should
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be straightforward and easily understood. We have, thus, Mr Leads
Phonce Mrs
not constrained the draftsman from making presentational changes or changes in the format used where this has seemed to him to be advantageous or to conform more readily to the Swift today pattern usually adopted in Hong Kong.
to ash her to send tel to M. K on this
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I appreciate that this may make it more difficult she wil for you to check the regulations put in the long run it will act on it make the enormous task we face in localising merchant shipping w laws rather simpler in the context of Hong Kong's legislative system.
I might add that the amount of work involved in localising Merchant Shipping legislation will be considerably increased if minor drafting points have to be argued at each step. This we most certainly wish to avoid.
Your
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(A.R. Clark)
for Secretary for Economic Services
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S. Alexander, DTP
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