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The Maritime Safety Committee,

 The annex of this document has been consolidated into Resolution MSC.81(70)

RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Committee,

RECALLING ALSO resolution A.689(17) entitled Testing of life-saving appliances, by which the Assembly, at its seventeenth session, adopted the Recommendation on testing of life-saving appliances,

RECALLING FURTHER that the Assembly, when adopting resolution A.689(17), authorized the Committee to keep the Recommendation on testing of life-saving appliances under review and to adopt, when appropriate, amendments thereto,

NOTING resolution MSC.81(70), by which, at its seventieth session, it adopted the Revised recommendation on testing of life-saving appliances, introducing more precise provisions for the testing of life-saving appliances based on the requirements of the International Life-Saving Appliances (LSA) Code,

RECOGNIZING the need to appropriately align the relevant provisions of the Revised recommendation on testing of life-saving appliances with the associated amendments to the LSA Code adopted by resolution MSC.425(98),

HAVING CONSIDERED, at its ninety-eighth session, proposed amendments to the Revised recommendation on testing of life-saving appliances, prepared by the Sub-Committee on Ship Systems and Equipment at its third session,

1 ADOPTS amendments to the Revised recommendation on testing of life-saving appliances (resolution MSC.81(70)), the text of which is set out in the annex to the present resolution;

2 RECOMMENDS Member States to apply the annexed amendments when testing life-saving appliances.

Parent topic: Resolution MSC.427(98) - Amendments to the Revised Recommendation on Testing of Life-Saving Appliances (Resolution MSC.81(70), As Amended) - (adopted on 15 June 2017)
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