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GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT

LOWER ALBERT ROAD

HONG KONG

29 April 1993 ST.Y

Rod Bunten Esq.

Hong Kong Department

Foreign & Commonwealth offide

London SW1A 2AH

Dear Rod,

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- Dumping at sea

Thank you for your letter of 14 April with your adviser's comments on the draft consultation paper on

this subject attached thereto.

Our comments on the points made adviser in her note of 2 April are as follows:

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Some of the 1978 amendments to the London Dumping Convention related either to the process of amendment or to the consultation of the tribunal to be set up between Contracting Parties and did not call for domestic legislation. Other amendments related to incineration at sea and implemented in the UK by the FEP Act 1985. They have not been implemented in Hong Kong up to

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The 1980 amendment varied the lists of prohibited substances; that amendment would be taken into account when granting or refusing a dumping licence.

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As to the 1989 amendment, you may recall that discussed this in 1991 (HK Telno 2505 of 9.8.91 and FCO Telno 1730 of 23.9.91) and concluded that no amending legislation would be necessary to implement it. The view reached then was that the 1989 amendment probably fell within the scope of S. 8(1)(A) of the FEP Act and that following that Act in our localising Bill would enable Hong Kong to likewise comply.

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