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  1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its sixty-ninth session (11 to 20 May 1998), approved, with a view to ensuring uniform application of the requirements of SOLAS chapter II-2 containing vague expressions such as "to the satisfaction of the Administration" or other vague wording which is open to diverging interpretations, interpretations of vague expressions and other vague wording in SOLAS chapter II-2, prepared by the Sub-Committee on Fire Protection, as set out in the annex.

  2 Member Governments are invited to use the annexed interpretations as guidance when applying relevant provisions of SOLAS chapter II-2 to fire protection, construction, installation, arrangements and equipment to be installed on board ships on or after 14 May 1998, in order to fulfill the requirements of the 1974 SOLAS Convention, and to bring the interpretations to the attention of all parties concerned.

  3 Member Governments are also advised to take into account earlier interpretations to SOLAS chapter II-2 approved by MSC 64, as given in MSC/Circ.669.

Parent topic: MSC/Circular.847 – Interpretations of Vague Expressions and other Vague Wording in SOLAS Chapter II-2 – (Adopted on 12 June 1998)
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