TNAG-2308-FCO40-3345-Future-of-Hong-Kong-shipping-register-1991 — Page 262

Handed over by Garrett to the Chinese side on 8.3.91

Introduction

The Hong Kong Shipping Register

Progress Report

SH/03/91

essential

As the Chinese side will recall, the

features of the Hong Kong shipping register were agreed at JLG

IV and subsequently published under the title "The Hong Kong

Register of Shipping General Principles to be adopted for the

modified Register" in October 1986.

2.

A Steering Group comprising representatives from the

various sectors of

sectors of the shipping industry and the

the Hong Kong

Government was set up in March 1987 to consider the detailed

practical arrangements to establish the register. Progress

reports were handed to the Chinese side on 2 September 1988 and

25 May 1990, the latter with the full recommendations of the

Steering Group.

3.

report

to

as

This paper serves as the third progress

the Hong Kong shipping register, the operation of

requested by the Chinese side at JLG XVII held in December 1990.

cover

4.

Virtually all of the Steering Group's recommendations

have been, or are being implemented through legislative

administrative means as set out below.

or