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.