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  1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its sixty-eighth session (28 May to 6 June 1997), noted that the 1995 SOLAS Conference, in adopting amendments to the 1974 SOLAS Convention concerning the safety of ro-ro passenger ships, also adopted a new SOLAS regulation III/24-1 footnote on Life-saving appliances for ro-ro passenger ships, which, inter alia, included provisions for means of rescue, as specified in paragraph 4 of the said regulation.

  2 The Committee, having considered a draft Recommendation on means of rescue on ro-ro passenger ships, prepared by the Sub-Committee on Ship Design and Equipment at its fortieth session, approved it, as set out in the annex.

  3 Member Governments are invited to bring the annexed Recommendation to the attention of those concerned and use the provisions contained therein, as appropriate, in conjunction with the relevant requirements of SOLAS regulation III/24-1.4.

Parent topic: MSC/Circular.810 – Recommendation on Means of Rescue on Ro-Ro Passenger Ships – (Adopted on 30 June 1997)
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