1.3 Applicability
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1.3 Applicability

  1.3.1 These Guidelines and Specifications apply:

  • .1 to installations fitted to ships, the keel of which are laid or which are at a similar stage of construction on or after 1 January 2005; and

  • .2 to new installations fitted on or after 1 January 2005 to ships, the keel of which were laid or which were at a similar stage construction before 1 January 2005 in so far as is reasonable and practicable.

  1.3.2 The Guidelines and Specifications adopted under resolutions A.393(X) and MEPC.60(33) are not applicable to ships to which these new Guidelines and Specifications apply.

  1.3.3 Installations fitted to ships the keel of which were laid or which were at a similar stage of construction before 1 January 2005 should comply either:

  • .1 with the Recommendation on International Performance and Test Specifications for Oily-Water Separating Equipment and Oil Content Meters adopted under resolution A.393(X), for equipment installed on board on or after 14 November 1978, as applicable; or

  • .2 with the Guidelines and Specifications adopted under resolution MEPC.60(33), for pollution prevention equipment installed on board on or after 30 April 1994, as applicable; or

with the requirements contained in these Guidelines and Specifications.

Parent topic: 1 Introduction
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