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GOVERMENT HOUSE HONG KONG.

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4.

1977.

The United Kingdom

extended the Paris convention

and its additional Protocol to Hong Kong as from 22 March In order to implement the Convention and Protocol in Hong Kong, the United Kingdom extended the relevant

provisions of the 1902 Act to Hong Kuny by means of the Nuclear Installations (Hông Kung) Order 1972,

made which

TWO further Orders in Council were subsequently amended the law applicable to Hong Kong in liability for carriage of nuclear material,

of

respect

namely-

(a)

the Nuclear Installations (Hong Kong) Order 1983

(c)

This

refleotcd

ancndments to the 1965 Act

It substituted

made by the Energy Act 1900.

special drawing rights for pounds sterling as the

unit.

lower limit QI

means

alco

for expressing the compensation payable for damage or injury, before compensation can be awarded for damage to the

of transport involved in an occurrence. It cmpowered the Governor of Hong Kong, with the approval of the Secretary of State, to raise that limit and clarified the meaning of injury for purposes of the 1965 Act, by applying to Hong Kong certain provisione of the Congenital Disabilities (Civil Liability) Act 1976; and

the Nuclear Installations (Hong Kong) (Amendment) Order 1986

This

compensation

provided for the lower limit of

for injury or damaye tu be calculaten in the IIong Kong dollars equivalent or special drawing rights, rather than the pounds sterling

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