NOTING Article 16(j) of the Convention on the International
Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Assembly in
relation to regulations concerning maritime safety,
RECOGNIZING the need for further improvement of this equivalent
regulation,
HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation by the Maritime Safety
Committee at its forty-eighth session,
1. ADOPTS the amendments to the regulation equivalent
to regulation 27 of the International
Convention on Load Lines, 1966, the text of which is annexed to the
present resolution;
2. RECOMMENDS Governments concerned to accept
the amendments when applying the regulation equivalent to regulation 27;
3. REQUESTS the Maritime Safety Committee to keep
the requirements of the International Convention on Load Lines, 1966,
under review and to report as necessary to the Assembly.