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The Maritime Safety Committee

 RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Committee,

 RECALLING ALSO that the Assembly, when adopting resolution A.689(17) on Testing of life-saving appliances, authorized the Committee to keep the Recommendation on testing of life-saving appliances under review and to adopt, when appropriate, amendments thereto,

 RECALLING FURTHER that, since the adoption of resolution A.689(17), the Committee has amended the Recommendation annexed thereto in five occasions, i.e. by resolution MSC.54(66), by circulars MSC/Circ.596, MSC/Circ.615 and MSC/Circ.809 and through the present resolution,

 NOTING that the 1995 SOLAS Conference, in adopting amendments to the 1974 SOLAS Convention concerning the safety of ro-ro passenger ships, also adopted resolution 7 on Development of requirements, guidelines and performance standards, whereby the Committee was requested to develop relevant requirements, guidelines and performance standards to assist in the implementation of the amendments adopted by the Conference,

 NOTING ALSO that the requirements of the International Life-Saving Appliance (LSA) Code came into force on 1 July 1998 under the provisions of new chapter III of the 1974 SOLAS Convention,

 RECOGNIZING the need to introduce more precise requirements in the testing of life-saving appliances,

 HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation made by the Sub-Committee on Ship Design and Equipment at its forty-first session,

  1. ADOPTS the Revised Recommendation on Testing of Life-Saving Appliances, set out in the Annex to the present resolution;

  2. RECOMMENDS Governments to ensure that life-saving appliances are subjected to:

  • .1 the tests recommended in the Annex to the present resolution; or

  • .2 such tests as the Administration is satisfied are substantially equivalent to those recommended in the Annex to the present resolution.

Parent topic: Resolution MSC.81(70) - Revised Recommendation on Testing of Life-Saving Appliances - (adopted on 11 December 1998)
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