Annex - Amendments to the Protocol of 1988 Relating to the International Convention on Load Lines, 1966 (1988 Load Lines Protocol)
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Annex - Amendments to the Protocol of 1988 Relating to the International Convention on Load Lines, 1966 (1988 Load Lines Protocol)

Annex B - ANNEXES TO THE CONVENTION AS MODIFIED BY THE PROTOCOL OF 1988 RELATING THERETO

Annex I - Regulations for determining load lines

Chapter II - Conditions of assignment of freeboard

Regulation 22 - Scuppers, inlets and discharges

1 Regulation 22(1)(g) is replaced with the following:

  • "(g) Table 22.1 provides the acceptable arrangements of scuppers and discharges."

Chapter III - Freeboards

Regulation 27 - Types of ships

2 Regulation 27(13)(a) is replaced with the following:

  • "(13) The condition of equilibrium after flooding shall be regarded as satisfactory provided:

    • (a) The final waterline after flooding, taking into account sinkage, heel and trim, is below the lower edge of any opening through which progressive downflooding may take place. Such openings shall include air pipes, ventilators (even if they comply with regulation 19(4)) and openings which are closed by means of weathertight doors (even if they comply with regulation 12) or hatch covers (even if they comply with regulation 16(1) through (5)), and may exclude those openings closed by means of manhole covers and flush scuttles (which comply with regulation 18), cargo hatch covers of the type described in regulation 27(2), remotely operated sliding watertight doors, hinged watertight access doors with open/closed indication locally and at the navigation bridge, of the quick-acting or single-action type that are normally closed at sea, hinged watertight doors that are permanently closed at sea, and sidescuttles of the non-opening type (which comply with regulation 23). In the case of doors separating a main machinery space from a steering gear compartment, watertight doors may be of a hinged, quick-acting type kept closed at sea whilst not in use, provided also that the lower sill of such doors is above the summer load waterline."

Parent topic: Resolution MSC.491(104) - Amendments to the Protocol of 1988 Relating to the International Convention on Load Lines, 1966 (1988 Load Lines Protocol) - (Adopted on 8 October 2021)
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