The Maritime Safety Committee
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The Maritime Safety Committee

 RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Committee,

 RECALLING FURTHER resolution A.373(X) by which the Assembly, when adopting on 14 November 1977 the Code of Safety for Dynamically Supported Craft (DSC Code) for craft such as hydrofoil boats and air-cushion vehicles which were increasingly being introduced in international transport, authorized the Maritime Safety Committee to amend the DSC Code as may be necessary,

 RECOGNIZING the continual development of novel types and sizes of high speed craft, which are not necessarily dynamically supported, cargo craft, passenger craft carrying larger numbers of passengers or operating at greater distances from places of refuge than permitted by the DSC Code,

 RECOGNIZING FURTHER that improvements of maritime safety standards since the adoption of the DSC Code are required to be reflected in the provisions for the design, construction, equipment and operation of high speed craft in order to maintain certification and safety equivalence with conventional ships,

  NOTING that the SOLAS Conference to be held from 17 to 24 May 1994 will be invited to adopt amendments to the 1974 SOLAS Convention which, inter alia, include a new chapter X on Safety measures for high speed craft, to make the provisions of the International Code of Safety for High Speed Craft (HSC Code) mandatory under that Convention for all such craft constructed on or after 1 January 1996,

 HAVING CONSIDERED at its sixty-third session the text of the proposed HSC Code which has been developed following a thorough revision of the DSC Code,

  1. ADOPTS the HSC Code, the text of which is set out in the Annex to the present resolution;

  2. NOTES that under the proposed chapter X of the 1974 SOLAS Convention, amendments to the HSC Code shall be adopted, brought into force and shall take effect in accordance with the provisions of article VIII of that Convention other than chapter I;

  3. REQUESTS the Secretary-General to transmit a copy of the present resolution together with the text of the HSC Code to all Members of the Organization and to all Contracting Governments to the 1974 SOLAS Convention which are not Members of the Organization;

  4. RECOMMENDS Governments to apply the Code on a voluntary basis in respect of craft constructed between the adoption of this resolution and the entry into force of the amendments to the 1974 SOLAS Convention referred to above as may be adopted by the 1994 SOLAS Conference.


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