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(3) notification by the shippers' organisation in writing to the conference that it wishes to be so recognised and of the address to which notices intended for it should be sent.

4. A shippers' organisation recognised in relation to any conference shall cease to be a recognised organisation in relation to that conference 3 months after it notifies the conference that it is to cease to be regarded as a shippers' organisation, but such notice shall not prevent the organisation thereafter becoming again a recognised organisation in relation to the conference.

Designation

5. The Secretary of State may designate for the purpose of article 11 of the Code (consultation machinery) any recognised shippers' organisation, any shipper, and any representative of shippers.

Nicholas Ridley,

Secretary of State for Transport.

13th February 1985.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This Note is not part of the Regulations.)

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These Regulations lay down, for the purposes of the Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences, 1974 ("the Code"), (which is scheduled to the Merchant Shipping (Liner Conferences) Act 1982)——

(a) the conditions for recognition of shipping lines as national shipping

lines of the United Kingdom (regulation 2);

(b) the conditions for recognition of shippers' organisations (regulation 3);

and

empower the Secretary of State to designate shippers, representatives of shippers and all recognised shippers' organisations under Article 11 of the Code (regulation 5).

The Regulations come into force when the Code enters into force for the United Kingdom. This date, which will be six months after accession by the United Kingdom, will be published in the London and Edinburgh Gazettes.

Any vessel-operating carriers which are bodies corporate incorporated or formed under the law of the United Kingdom and having their principal place of business here, and equivalent bodies corporate from other EEC Member States which are established here, are to be recognised as United Kingdom national shipping lines in respect only of those conferences of which they are members. However, bodies corporate which are controlled in States which do not allow in their countries similar rights for UK shipping lines are excluded from recognition.