1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its ninety-fourth
session (17 to 21 November 2014), with a view to providing more specific
guidance for the application of the relevant requirements of the FSS Code, approved the following unified interpretation
for paragraph 2.1.2.2 of chapter 3 of the
FSS Code:
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"Paragraph 2.1.2.2 of chapter 3 of
the FSS Code, adopted by resolution MSC.339(91), requires an audible alarm and a visual or other device which
will alert the user. In this context, a pressure indicator, with which
the user can read that the volume of remaining air in the cylinder
has been reduced to no less than 200 litres, regardless of the need
for supplemental lighting, may be regarded as a visual device."
2 Member Governments are invited to use the above
unified interpretation as guidance when applying the relevant provision
of the FSS Code and to bring it to the attention
of all parties concerned.