The annex of this document has been consolidated into SPS
Code
RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization
concerning the functions of the Committee,
RECALLING ALSO resolution A.534(13), by which the Assembly, at its thirteenth
session, adopted the Code of Safety for Special Purpose Ships ("the SPS
Code"),
RECALLING FURTHER that the Assembly authorized the Committee to amend the
SPS
Code as may be necessary,
NOTING that it adopted, at its ninety-ninth session, amendments to SOLAS
chapter IV and the appendix (Certificates) by resolution MSC.436(99),
NOTING ALSO that, at its 100th session it adopted amendments to the SPS Code by
resolution MSC.453(100) and agreed that further amendments to
the SPS
Code were necessary to update the Record of Equipment for the SPS Safety
Certificate,
HAVING CONSIDERED, at its 101st session, amendments to Special Purpose Ship Safety
Certificate and its associated Record of Equipment,
1 ADOPTS amendments to the SPS Code,
the text of which is set out in the annex to the present resolution;
2 DETERMINES that the said amendments should become effective on 1 January
2020, in conjunction with the entry into force of amendments to SOLAS
chapter IV and the appendix (Certificates) adopted by resolution MSC.436(99).