1 The Committee, at its eighty-sixth session (27
May to 5 June 2009), having considered the proposal by the Sub-Committee
on Fire Protection, at its fifty-third session, with regard to the
application for existing approvals according to the Revised Guidelines
for approval of equivalent fixed gas fire-extinguishing systems, as
referred to in SOLAS 74, for machinery spaces and cargo pump-rooms (MSC/Circ.848), in relation to the amendments
to the Revised Guidelines (MSC.1/Circ.1267),
agreed to the following interpretation:
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“Type approvals conducted in accordance with the Revised
Guidelines for approval of equivalent fixed gas fire-extinguishing
systems, as referred to in SOLAS 74, for machinery spaces and cargo
pump-rooms (MSC/Circ.848) should remain
valid until 1 July 2012.”
2 Member Governments are invited to apply the
above interpretation when approving equivalent fixed gas fire-extinguishing
systems, as referred to in SOLAS 74, for machinery spaces and cargo
pump-rooms, and bring it to the attention of ship designers, shipowners,
equipment manufacturers, test laboratories and other parties concerned.