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Explanatory note

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This Order extends to Hong Kong certain provisions of the Merchant Shipping (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Order 1987. Its main purpose is to give the Governor of Hong Kong power to make regulations to enable effect to be given in Hong Kong to Annex II to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships 1973 (Cmnd. 5748).