RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International
Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Committee,
NOTING the need to amend respective provisions of the Code,
HAVING CONSIDERED, at its eighty-seventh session, amendments
to the 2008 SPS Code proposed by the Sub-Committee
on Ship Design and Equipment, at its fifty-third session,
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1. ADOPTS amendments to the Code of Safety for
Special Purpose Ships, 2008, the text of which is set out in the Annex
to the present resolution;
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2. DETERMINES that the said amendments should
become effective on 14 May 2010.