The annex of this document has been consolidated into SPS
Code
RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International Maritime
Organization concerning the functions of the Committee,
RECALLING ALSO resolution A.534(13), by which the Assembly, at its thirteenth session, adopted the
Code of Safety for Special Purpose Ships ("the SPS Code"),
RECALLING FURTHER that the Assembly authorized it to amend the SPS Code as
may be necessary,
RECALLING amendments to the SPS Code adopted by:
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.1 circular MSC/Circ.446, which became effective on 13 October
1986;
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.2 circular MSC/Circ.478, which became effective on 28 July
1987;
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.3 circular MSC/Circ.739, which became effective on 28 June 1996;
and
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.4 resolution MSC.183(79)), which became effective on 1 July 2006,
NOTING that it adopted, at its ninety-ninth session, amendments to SOLAS
chapter IV and the appendix (Certificates) by resolution MSC.436(99),
HAVING CONSIDERED, at its 100th session, consequential amendments to the
Record of Equipment of the SPS Code,
1 ADOPTS amendments to the SPS Code, the text of which is set out in the
annex to the present resolution, also incorporating the amendments previously adopted by
circular MSC/Circ.739 (which includes the amendments adopted by MSC/Circ.446 and
MSC/Circ.478) and resolution MSC.183(79),
and the consequential amendments to the Record of Equipment;
2 DETERMINES that the said consequential amendments to the Record of
Equipment should become effective on 1 January 2020, in conjunction with the entry into
force of amendments to SOLAS
chapter IV and the appendix (Certificates) adopted by resolution MSC.436(99).