RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International
Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Committee,
RECALLING ALSO resolution A.689(17) entitled "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,
RECOGNIZING the need to harmonize amendments to the Revised
recommendation on testing of life-saving appliances as adopted by
resolutions MSC.200(80) and MSC.226(82),
HAVING CONSIDERED, at its eighty-ninth session, proposed
amendments to the Revised recommendation on testing of life-saving
appliances, prepared by the Sub-Committee on Ship Design and Equipment
at its fifty-fourth session,
1. ADOPTS amendments to the Revised recommendation
on testing of life-saving appliances (resolution
MSC.81(70)), 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.