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  1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its eighty-fourth session (7 to 16 May 2008), with a view to providing more specific guidance for certain rules, which are open to different interpretations contained in IMO instruments, approved the unified interpretations of COLREG 1972, as amended, prepared by the Sub-Committee on Safety of Navigation.

  2 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its ninety-third session (14 to 23 May 2014), reviewed and approved a revised unified interpretation of annex I, section 9(b) – Horizontal sectors of COLREG 1972, as amended, prepared by the Sub-Committee on Safety of Navigation at its fifty-ninth session (2 to 6 September 2013), as set out in the annex.

  3 Member Governments are invited to use the annexed unified interpretations with respect to Rule 27(b)(i) and annex I, section 3(b) as guidance when applying relevant provisions of COLREGs to vessels constructed on or after 1 January 2009, whilst the revised unified interpretation with respect to annex I, section 9(b) be used as guidance to vessels constructed on or after 1 July 2015 and to bring the unified interpretations to the attention of all parties concerned.

  4 This circular revokes MSC.1/Circ.1260 and MSC.1/Circ.1260/Corr.1.

Parent topic: MSC.1/Circular.1260 Rev.1 – Unified Interpretations of COLREG 1972, as Amended – (23 May 2014)
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