The annex of this document has been consolidated into HSC Code
RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization
concerning the functions of the Committee,
NOTING resolution MSC.36(63), by which it adopted the International
Code of Safety for High-Speed Craft ("the 1994 HSC Code"), which has become mandatory under chapter X of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974 ("the
Convention"),
NOTING ALSO article VIII(b) and regulation X/1.1 of the Convention concerning the procedure
for amending the 1994 HSC Code,
HAVING CONSIDERED, at its ninety-eighth session, amendments to the 1994 HSC
Code proposed and circulated in accordance with article VIII(b)(i) of the
Convention,
1 ADOPTS, in accordance with article VIII(b)(iv) of the Convention, amendments to the
1994
HSC Code, the text of which is set out in the annex to the present
resolution;
2 DETERMINES, in accordance with article VIII(b)(vi)(2)(bb) of the Convention, that
said amendments shall be deemed to have been accepted on 1 July 2019 unless, prior
to that date, more than one third of the Contracting Governments to the Convention
or Contracting Governments the combined merchant fleets of which constitute not less
than 50 % of the gross tonnage of the world's merchant fleet, have notified their
objections to the amendments;
3 INVITES Contracting Governments to the Convention to note that, in accordance with
article VIII(b)(vii)(2) of the Convention, the amendments shall enter into force on
1 January 2020 upon their acceptance in accordance with paragraph 2 above;
4 REQUESTS the Secretary-General, for the purposes of Article VIII(b)(v) of the
Convention, to transmit certified copies of the present resolution and the text of
the amendments contained in the annex to all Contracting Governments to the
Convention;
5 REQUESTS ALSO the Secretary-General to transmit copies of this resolution and its
annex to Members of the Organization which are not Contracting Governments to the
Convention.