This document was revoked by Resolution A. 1073(28) Recommendation on the Use of
National Tonnage in Applying International Conventions (Adopted
on 4 December 2013)
The Assembly
RECALLING Article 15(j) of the Convention on the International
Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Assembly in
relation to regulations and guidelines concerning maritime safety
and the prevention and control of marine pollution from ships,
NOTING that the International Convention of Tonnage Measurement
of Ships, 1969 (1969 Tonnage Convention) shall apply to existing ships
as from 18 July 1994, under the provisions of article
3(2)(d) thereof,
NOTING FURTHER that existing ships to which the 1969 Tonnage
Convention shall apply on or after 18 July 1994 shall retain their
then existing tonnages for the purpose of the application to them
of relevant requirements under other existing international conventions,
REALIZING that tonnages determined under the 1969 Tonnage
Convention can be sufficiently different from those determined under
the old national tonnage regulations to create confusion in connection
with the application of:
BEARING IN MIND that, although the 1974 SOLAS Convention
and the other international conventions do not specifically define
the gross tonnage of ships, the gross tonnage determined in accordance
with the 1969 Tonnage Convention should be used for application of
the provisions of these Conventions,
BEARING IN MIND ALSO Resolution A.494(XII) on the Revised
interim scheme for tonnage measurement for certain ships, Resolution
A.540(13) on Tonnage measurement of certain ships relevant to the
1978 STCW Convention and Resolution A.541(13) on the Interim scheme
for tonnage measurement for certain ships for the purposes of MARPOL
73/78,
HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation made by the Maritime
Safety Committee at its sixty-third session and the Marine Environment
Protection Committee at its thirty-sixth session,
1. AGREES that for an existing ship, the keel
of which was laid before 18 July 1982, having the gross tonnage determined
in accordance with national tonnage rules, which was valid prior to
the coming into force of the 1969 Tonnage Convention and which is
stated under the REMARKS column of the International Tonnage Certificate
(1969) for such a ship, the appropriate box in the pertinent Ship
Safety Certificate, the International Oil Pollution Prevention Certificate
or other such official certificates issued by the Administration may
show only that old gross tonnage with one of the following footnotes:
-
The above gross tonnage has been determined by the
tonnage authorities of the Administration in accordance with the national
tonnage rules which were in force prior to the coming into force of
the International Convention on Tonnage Measurement of Ships, 1969,
or
-
See REMARKS column of the valid International Tonnage Certificate
(1969),
2. INVITES Member Governments and Governments
of States parties to the aforementioned Conventions to take cognizance
and to accept the use of this scheme for the purpose of application
of the provisions of SOLAS 1974, MARPOL 73/78 and STCW 1978.