(the provisions of this section apply to ships
and to FPSOs, FSUs, offshore supply vessels, special purpose ships
and A.494(XII)-ships which are required to transmit LRIT information
and any reference to a ship below should be considered as including
all the aforesaid)
8.1 Ships engaged on international voyages in
sea areas A1, A2 and A3 or A1, A2, A3 and A4, which are using, for
the purpose of transmitting LRIT information, the radiocommunication
equipment fitted on board for the purpose of complying with the requirements
of chapter IV and which, for the purpose of complying with the requirements
of regulation IV/15.6 in relation
to availability, are provided with duplicated equipment, should be
required to use only one of the sets of duplicated equipment fitted
on board for transmitting LRIT information.