11 Specific provisions in relation to mobile offshore drilling units
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11 Specific provisions in relation to mobile offshore drilling units

  11.1 Mobile offshore drilling units may be required by the Contracting Government whose flag they may be entitled to fly to comply with the provisions of the:

  • .1 national codes or requirements for the construction and equipment of mobile offshore drilling units, in case they were constructed prior 31 December 1981; or

  • .2 Code for the construction and equipment of mobile offshore drilling units adopted by resolution A.414(XI) (the 1979 MODU Code); or

  • .3 Code for the construction and equipment of mobile offshore drilling units, 1989 adopted by resolution A.649(16) (the 1989 MODU Code) in case their keel was laid or was at a similar state of construction on or after 1 May 1991.

  11.2 The provisions of this note should apply mutatis mutandis to mobile offshore drilling units subject to any reference to certificate and radio related certificate in this note being read as referring:

  • .1 for mobile offshore drilling units constructed on or after 31 December 2008, to the Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit Safety Certificate, 1989 issued pursuant to the provisions of the 1989 MODU Code; and

  • .2 for mobile offshore drilling units constructed before 31 December 2008, to either the Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit Safety Certificate issued pursuant to the provisions of the 1979 MODU Code or the Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit Safety Certificate, 1989, issued pursuant to the provisions of the 1989 MODU Code or a certificate or document issued under a national code or requirements in case of units constructed prior to 31 December 1981, as the case may be.

  11.3 As the Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit Safety Certificate and the Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit Safety Certificate, 1989 are not accompanied by a record of equipment, mobile offshore drilling units should be considered as meeting the requirements when:

  • .1 the provisions of sections 4, 5 and 8 are met;

  • .2 there is on board a valid certificate or document issued under a national code or requirements in case of units constructed prior to 31 December 1981, or a valid Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit Safety Certificate or a valid Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit Safety Certificate, 1989; and

  • .3 there is on board a valid Conformance test report.

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