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Introduction

This paper has been prepared as a basis for consultation

in accordance with the three principles for consultation agreed at

the eighth meeting of the Sino-British Joint Liaison Group, on the

way in which the British side intends to localise certain provisions

in United Kingdom enactments which apply to Hong Kong. The

enactments covered by this paper concern the Convention on a Code of

Conduct for Liner Conferences.

Background

2.

The United Kingdom signed the Convention on a Code of

Conduct for Liner Conferences at Geneva ("the Code") on 6 April 1974

and ratified it on 28 June 1985. In order to be able to ratify the

Code the United Kingdom enacted the Merchant Shipping (Liner

Conferences) Act 1982 ("the 1982 Act") which in respect of the

United Kingdom empowered the Secretary of State to make appropriate

regulations for giving effect to the Code and made certain ancillary