A - The Assembly
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Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - International Codes - SPS Code - Code of Safety for Special Purpose Ships – Resolution A.534(13) - A - The Assembly

A - The Assembly

 RECALLING Article 16(j) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Assembly in relation to regulations concerning maritime safety,

 NOTING that specialized types of ships with unusual design and operational characteristics may differ from those of conventional merchant ships subject to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974,

 ALSO NOTING that by virtue of the specialized nature of the work undertaken by these ships, special personnel are carried, who are neither crew members nor passengers as defined in the above Convention,

 RECOGNIZES that certain safety standards supplementing those of the 1974 SOLAS Convention may be required for special purpose ships,

 HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation made by the Maritime Safety Committee at its forty-eighth session,

  1. ADOPTS the code of Safety for Special Purpose Ships (SPS Code), the text of which is set out in the Annex to this resolution;

  2. INVITES all Governments concerned:

  • (a) to take appropriate steps to give effect to the Code as soon as possible;.

  • (b) to inform IMO of measures taken for the application of the Code and of the date from which new special purpose ships should comply with the provisions of the Code.


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