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Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Resolutions - Assembly - IMO Resolution A.761(18) – Recommendation on Conditions for the Approval of Servicing Stations for Inflatable Liferafts – (Adopted on 4 November 1993)Amended by Resolution MSC.55(66)Amended by Resolution MSC.388(94) - The Assembly

The Assembly

 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).


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