The annex of this document has been consolidated into 2008 SPS
Code
RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization
concerning the functions of the Committee,
RECALLING ALSO resolution MSC.266(84), by which it adopted the Code of Safety for Special
Purpose Ships, 2008 (2008 SPS Code),
NOTING the need to amend respective provisions of the Code,
HAVING CONSIDERED, at its ninety-sixth session, amendments to chapter 2 of the 2008 SPS
Code proposed by the Sub-Committee on Ship Design and Construction, at its third
session,
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;
2 DETERMINES that the said amendments should become effective on 13 May 2016.