TNAG-2563-FCO40-3748-Future-of-Hong-Kong-localisation-of-laws-Merchant-Shipping--1992 — Page 5

CODE 18-77

A M Forryan

AMD

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HONG KONG: REPEAL OF SECTION 238 OF MSA 1894

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1. Thank for your minute of 10 November. I suggest that you write direct to Hong Kong Government to inform them of the proposed repeal. In the first instance you should write to:

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Mrs A Chan

Secretary for Economic Services

Economic Services Branch

2nd Floor, Main and East Wings Central Government Offices Lower Albert Road

HONG KONG,

You may know already that Hong Kong have drawn up new legislation entitled the Merchant Shipping (Seafarers) Bill which they intend to become law before the handover to China in 1997. This is a consolidation bill: it incorporates elements of the Merchant Shipping Acts 1894, 1906 and 1970, and other laws. Presumably this will mean the replacement of the MSA 1894 so Hong Kong are unlikely to have any objections to the repeal of the section in question.

Varatt Mushall

J N Marshall

Hong Kong Department

WH305

270-3287

11 November 1992

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