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EQUIPMENT
Since it take time and is also costly to establish a proper laboratory for testing standards of equipment, the English standard should remain to be the criteria but other national standards, such as of Japan, Norway and China, should also be gradually adopted. A list of foreign made equipments that are accepted should be regularly promulgated for shipowners' reference when buying second-hand ships.
For large and expensive equipment, approval by test should be considered for each individual ship. (IST)
Hong Kong should develop its own set of inter- nationally rgional standard which would be comparable to those of the UK and other principle maritime nations. (POLY(DMME))
It would not be appropriate that only British safety equipment should be specified for vessels on the Register. Equipment of at least equivalent standards manufactured by other nations should be permitted. Government itself must determine the standards with which such equipment should comply and the means of testing such equipment. Any lowering of standards would not be supported. (HKSOA)
The use of non-British-manufactured equipment, provided it complies with international standards, should be freely permitted. (NI)
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