RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International
Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Committee,
RECALLING ALSO resolution A.328(IX) by which the Assembly,
at its ninth session, adopted the Code for the Construction and Equipment
of Ships Carrying Liquefied Gases in Bulk (GC Code),
NOTING resolution MSC.370(93),
by which it adopted amendments to the International Code for
the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Liquefied Gases in
Bulk
(IGC Code),
HAVING CONSIDERED, at its ninety-third session, amendments
to the GC Code proposed by the Sub-Committee
on Stability and Load Lines and Fishing Vessels Safety, at its fifty-fifth
session, which were approved by the Committee at its ninety-second
session,
RECOGNIZING the need for the amendments to the GC Code to become effective on the date on which the corresponding
amendments to the IGC Code enter into force,
1 ADOPTS amendments to the Code for the Construction
and Equipment of Ships Carrying Liquefied Gases in Bulk (GC
Code), as amended, the text of which is set out in the annex
to the present resolution;
2 DETERMINES that the said amendments shall become
effective on 1 January 2016 footnoteupon
acceptance and entry into force of the corresponding amendments to
the IGC Code adopted by resolution MSC.370(93).