1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its eighty-first
session (10 to 19 May 2006), with a view to providing assistance to
the Administrations in the implementation of the requirements of the
1974 SOLAS Convention and in order to ensure the uniform application
thereof, approved the unified interpretations to SOLAS regulation II-1/10 and regulation 12 of the revised SOLAS
chapter II-1 (resolution MSC.194(80)),
regarding bow doors and the extension of the collision bulkhead, as
set out in the annex.
2 Member Governments are urged to:
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.1 take note of the annexed unified interpretations
and use them when applying the relevant requirements of the 1974 SOLAS Convention; and
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.2 bring the annexed unified interpretations to
the attention of all interested parties.