RESOLUTION MSC.299(87)

(adopted on 14 May 2010)

 

ADOPTION OF AMENDMENTS TO THE CODE OF SAFETY FOR SPECIAL PURPOSE SHIPS, 2008

 

 

THE MARITIME SAFETY COMMITTEE,

 

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

 

RECALLING ALSO resolution MSC.266(84), by which it adopted the Code of Safety for Special Purpose Ships, 2008 (2008 SPS Code),

 

NOTING the need to amend respective provisions of the Code,

 

HAVING CONSIDERED, at its eighty-seventh session, amendments to the 2008 SPS Code proposed by the Sub-Committee on Ship Design and Equipment, at its fifty-third session,

 

1.         ADOPTS amendments to the Code of Safety for Special Purpose Ships, 2008, the text of which is set out in the Annex to the present resolution;

 

2.         DETERMINES that the said amendments should become effective on 14 May 2010.

 

 

ANNEX

 

AMENDMENTS TO THE CODE OF SAFETY FOR SPECIAL PURPOSE SHIPS, 2008

 

Chapter 5 Periodically unattended machinery spaces

 

1          Paragraph 5.1 is amended as follows:

 

"Special purpose ships carrying not more than 240 persons on board should comply with regulations 46 to 53 of chapter II-1 of SOLAS, as amended."

 

Chapter 8 Life-saving appliances

 

2          In paragraph 8.3, the words "sail training" are inserted before the word "ship".

 

Annex Form of Safety Certificate for Special Purpose Ships

 

Appendix Record of Equipment for the Special Purpose Ship Safety Certificate (Form SPS)

 

2 Details of life-saving appliances

 

3          In item 2.2, the reference to "section 4.6" is replaced with the reference to "section 4.5".

 

4          Item 2.3 is deleted and items 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1 and 2.5.2 are renumbered as items 2.3, 2.4, 2.4.1 and 2.4.2, respectively.

 

5          In renumbered item 2.3, the reference to "section 4.9" is replaced with the reference to "section 4.6".

 

6          Items 6, 6.1 and 6.2 are deleted and items 7, 8, 9, 9.1, 9.2, 10, 11, 11.1 and 11.2 are renumbered as 6, 7, 8, 8.1, 8.2, 9, 10, 10.1 and 10.2, respectively.