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Merchant Shipping (Registration, etc.) Bill [Ways and Means]

– in the House of Commons at 10:02 pm on 1 March 1993.

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Resolved,That, for the purposes of any Act resulting from the Merchant Shipping (Registration, etc.) Bill, it is expedient to authorise the payment of any fees received by the Secretary of State into the Consolidated Fund—[Mr. Robert G. Hughes.]

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