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Comment:

This would be a fall-back position. It

is not recommended.]

]

3.25.

We also realise the difficulties implicit in the deletion of the requirement to employ British or Commonwealth officers in certain posts once the new

register has been established. In the CD we raised the

possibility of a transitional period.

reference was to ensure that, whatever else was decided,

British and Commonwealth officers continued to be

The aim of this

qualified to be so employed. By insisting on existing Hong Kong standards no transitional period is necessary and the same end is achieved. Nothing will guarantee a

British officer the right of continued employment on a

Hong Kong ship. It would, however, ensure that no

less qualified would replace him.

[Alternative:

Grant privileged status until 1997 to

British and Commonwealth officers who have

served on ships on the existing Hong Kong

Register.

Comment:

It has been suggested that UK seafarers

who signed on Hong Kong ships were considered