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INTERNATIONAL

CONVENTION

FOR THE

OF WHALING

: APPLICATION TO

HONG

1.

142)

REGULATION

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We spoke. The Convention is silent as to its jeritorial application. It was

signed and on behalf of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Norther Ireland with

of dependent temitones.

no mention

It appears to be

convention intended to be of world-wide application and is arguably connected with matters of international morality.

can be

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2. In these circumstances I think it concluded that it ratification by the UK was intended to extend to Hong Kong accordance with British practice and (probably) to generd rule of international law that in

behalf of such caser of silence ratification all the components of a complex state.

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