MSC.1-Circ.1630-Rev.2-RevisedStandardizedLife-SavingApplianceEvaluationAndTestReportForms(SurvivalCraft)

INTERNATIONALEMARITIMEORGANIZATION4 ALBERT EMBANKMENTLONDON SE1 7SRTelephone:+44(0)2077357611Fax:+44(0)2075873210MSC.1/Circ.1630/Rev.228June2023REVISED STANDARDIZED LIFE-SAVING APPLIANCE EVALUATIONAND TEST REPORT FORMS (SURVIVAL CRAFT)1The Maritime Safety Committee,at its 102nd session(4 to 11 November 2020),approved the Revised standardized life-saving appliance evaluation and test report foms.2The original foms,as set forth in the Standardized life-saving appliance evaluationand test report foms(MSC/Circ.980)and its addenda,were developed on the basis of therequirements of the Intemational Life-Saving Appliance (LSA)Code and the Revisedrecommendation on testing of life-saving appliances(resolution MSC.81(70))by the MaritimeSafety Committee,at its seventy-third session in 2001,with a view to providing guidance onhow to conduct tests,record test data and verify tests.The Committee adopted severalamendments to the LSA Code and to resolution MSC.81(70).These amendments wereincorporated in the original forms which,due to their volume,were presented in six separatecirculars,i.e.MSC.1/Circ.1628,MSC.1/Circ.1629,MSC.1/Circ.1630,MSC.1/Circ.1631,MSC.1/Circ.1632 and MSC.1/Circ.1633,pertaining to the equipment addressed in chapters llto Vll of the LSA Code,respectively.3In order to address the need to update the references to the withdrawn standards in"Technical tests on the membrane","Porosity"and "Oil resistance"in the Revisedstandardized life-saving appliance evaluation and test report forms (survival craft)(MSC.1/Circ.1630),the Committee,at its 106th session(2 to 11 November 2022),approvedamendments to the above-mentioned evaluation and test report forms,for dissemination asMSC.1/Circ.1630/Rev.1.The forms annexed to this circular apply to the equipment addressed in chapter IV ofthe LSA Code,i.e.survival craft(inflatable liferafts;rigid liferafts;components for survival craft;davit-launched lifeboats;and free-fall lifeboats).The Committee,at its 107th session (31 May to 9 June 2023),approvedamendments to the evaluation and test report forms emanating from amendments to the LSACode and resolution MSC.81(70)concerning ventilation requirements for totally enclosedlifeboats adopted at the session.The text of the Revised standardized life-saving applianceevaluation and test report forms (survival craft)is set out in the annex.The use of the revised forms will continue to be of benefit to Administrations andother parties,such as manufacturers,test facilities,owners and surveyors,and will be a majorhelp in mutually accepting the type approval of appliances approved by other Administrations.I:CIRCMSC1MSC.1-Circ.1630-Rev.2.docxMARPOL AT 50OUR COMMITMENT GOES ON