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Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Resolutions - Maritime Safety Committee - Resolution MSC.217(82) - Adoption of Amendments to the International Code for Fire Safety Systems - (Adopted on 8 December 2006) - The Maritime Safety Committee,

The Maritime Safety Committee,

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

 NOTING resolution MSC.98(73) by which it adopted the International Code for Fire Safety Systems (hereinafter referred to as “the FSS Code”), which has become mandatory under chapter II-2 of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974 (hereinafter referred to as “the Convention”),

 NOTING ALSO article VIII(b) and regulation II-2/3.22 of the Convention concerning the procedure for amending the FSS Code,

 HAVING CONSIDERED, at its eighty-second session, amendments to the FSS Code, proposed and circulated in accordance with article VIII(b)(i) of the Convention,

  1 ADOPTS, in accordance with article VIII(b)(iv) of the Convention, amendments to the International Code for Fire Safety Systems, the text of which is set out in Annexes 1 and 2 to the present resolution;

  2 DETERMINES, in accordance with article VIII(b)(vi)(2)(bb) of the Convention, that:

  • (a) the said amendments, set out in Annex 1, shall be deemed to have been accepted on 1 January 2008; and

  • (b) the said amendments, set out in Annex 2, shall be deemed to have been accepted on 1 January 2010,

unless, prior to that date, more than one third of the Contracting Governments to the Convention or Contracting Governments the combined merchant fleets of which constitute not less than 50% of the gross tonnage of the world’s merchant fleet, have notified their objections to the amendments;

  3 INVITES SOLAS Contracting Governments to note that, in accordance with article VIII(b)(vii)(2) of the Convention:

  • (a) the amendments, set out in Annex 1, shall enter into force on 1 July 2008; and

  • (b) the amendments, set out in Annex 2, shall enter into force on 1 July 2010,

upon their acceptance in accordance with paragraph 2 above;

  4 REQUESTS the Secretary-General, in conformity with article VIII(b)(v) of the Convention, to transmit certified copies of the present resolution and the text of the amendments contained in Annexes 1 and 2 to all Contracting Governments to the Convention;

  5 FURTHER REQUESTS the Secretary-General to transmit copies of this resolution and its Annexes 1 and 2 to Members of the Organization, which are not Contracting Governments to the Convention.

Parent topic: Resolution MSC.217(82) - Adoption of Amendments to the International Code for Fire Safety Systems - (Adopted on 8 December 2006)
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