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Mr Anderson

2nd Legal Adviser

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MERCHANT SHIPPING (SALVAGE AND OIL POLLUTION) BILL

Please see the attached letter from the Department of Transport. Before I consult the DTS, I wonder if you and copy addressees might consider any wrinkles.

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The 1992 Protocols do not appear to raise any problem. Convention on Oil Pollution Preparedness Response and Co-operation seems to imply that states party are ready to provide technical support and assistance to others, ie that they have this capability. They also need a national system for combating oil pollution. I wonder what the cost of these two provisions will be, and who will pay. Or do the DT's already have the capability and the plan?

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I see no problems with the Salvage Convention.

David Turner

Aviation and Maritime Department

WH MZ12 270 2628

14 December 1993

Cc:

Frances MacLeod: ESED

4M 201

Andrew Tesoriere:

WIAD

Tony Stevens:

SAAD

WH MZ36 WH300

David Walwyn:

SED K224

Rosalind Moore:

Hong Kong Dept

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