1.8 Port State control
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1.8 Port State control

 The provisions of these Guidelines are without any prejudice to any rights of the port State under international law to review the Design and Construction Document and the Safety Compliance Certificate and impose its own requirements relating to the regulation, surveying and inspection of passenger submersible craft operating in the waters over which that State is entitled to exercise sovereign rights.


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