RECALLING Article 15(j) of the Convention on the International
Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Assembly in
relation to regulations and guidelines concerning maritime safety,
NOTING that Regulation III/19.8.1 of
the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974,
as amended, requires that every inflatable liferaft shall be serviced
at intervals not exceeding 12 months but that, where it appears proper
and reasonable, the Administration may extend this period to 17 months
and that inflatable liferafts shall be serviced at an approved servicing
station which is competent to service them, maintains proper servicing
facilities and uses only properly trained personnel,
NOTING ALSO Resolution A.693(17) on the conditions for the
approval of servicing stations for inflatable liferafts,
HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation made by the Maritime
Safety Committee at its sixty-second session,
1. ADOPTS the Recommendation on Conditions for
the Approval of Servicing Stations for Inflatable Liferafts, set out
in the annex to the present resolution;
2. INVITES Governments to inspect servicing stations
for inflatable liferafts within their authority in accordance with
that Recommendation;
3. AUTHORIZES the Maritime Safety Committee to
keep the Recommendation under review and to adopt, when appropriate,
amendments thereto;
4. REVOKES Resolution A.693(17).