The Annex of this document has been consolidated into resolution MSC.81(70)
RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization
concerning the functions of the Committee,
RECALLING ALSO resolution A.689(17) entitled Testing of life-saving appliances, by
which the Assembly, at its seventeenth session, adopted the Recommendation on testing
of life-saving appliances,
RECALLING FURTHER that the Assembly, when adopting resolution A.689(17), authorized the
Committee to keep the Recommendation on testing of life-saving appliances under
review and to adopt, when appropriate, amendments thereto,
NOTING resolution MSC.81(70), by which, at its seventieth session, it adopted the
Revised recommendation on testing of life-saving appliances, introducing more
precise provisions for the testing of life-saving appliances based on the requirements
of the International Life-Saving Appliances (LSA) Code,
RECOGNIZING the need to appropriately align the relevant provisions of the Revised
recommendation on testing of life-saving appliances with the associated
amendments to the LSA Code adopted by resolution MSC.320(89),
HAVING CONSIDERED, at its ninety-third session, proposed amendments to the Revised
recommendation on testing of life-saving appliances, prepared by the
Sub-Committee on Ship Design and Equipment at its fifty-seventh session,
1 ADOPTS amendments to the Revised recommendation on testing of life-saving appliances
(resolution MSC.81(70)), the text of which is set out in the annex to the
present resolution;
2 RECOMMENDS Governments to apply the annexed amendments when testing life-saving
appliances.