RESOLUTION MSC.320(89)

ANNEX 4

RESOLUTION MSC.320(89)

(adopted on 20 May 2011)

ADOPTION OF AMENDMENTS TO THE

INTERNATIONAL LIFE-SAVING APPLIANCE (LSA) CODE

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.48(66), by which it adopted the International Life-Saving Appliance

Code (hereinafter referred to as "the LSA Code"), which has become mandatory under

chapter III 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 III/3.10 of the Convention concerning the

procedure for amending the LSA Code,

HAVING CONSIDERED, at its eighty-ninth session, amendments to the LSA 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 LSA Code, the text of which is set out in the Annex to the present resolution;

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

the amendments shall be deemed to have been accepted on 1 July 2012, 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 Contracting Governments to note that, in accordance with

article VIII(b)(vii)(2) of the Convention, the amendments shall enter into force on

1 January 2013 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 the Annex to all Contracting Governments to the Convention;

5. FURTHER REQUESTS the Secretary-General to transmit copies