RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International
Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Committee,
RECALLING ALSO resolution A.689(17) on Testing of life-saving
appliances, by which the Assembly, at its seventeenth session, adopted
the Recommendation on testing of life-saving appliances,
RECALLING FURTHER that the Assembly, when adopting resolution
A.689(17), authorized the Committee to keep the Recommendation on
testing of life-saving appliances under review and to adopt, when
appropriate, amendments thereto,
NOTING resolution MSC.81(70),
by which, at its seventieth session, it adopted the Revised recommendation
on testing of life-saving appliances, recognizing the need to introduce
more precise provisions for the testing of life-saving appliances
based on the requirements of the International Life-Saving Appliances
(LSA) Code,
BEING DESIROUS to appropriately address inconsistencies
which have been identified between the LSA Code and the Revised recommendation
on testing of life-saving appliances,
HAVING CONSIDERED, at its eighty-second session, amendments
to the Revised recommendation on testing of life-saving appliances,
prepared by the Sub-Committee on Fire Protection, at its fiftieth
session,
1 ADOPTS amendments to the Revised recommendation
on testing of life-saving appliances, as amended, the text of which
is set out in the Annex to the
present resolution;
2 RECOMMENDS Governments to apply the annexed
amendments when testing life-saving appliances;
3 DETERMINES that the above-said amendments should
become effective on 1 July 2008.