ResolutionMSC.427(98)–AmendmentstoMSC.81(70)

MSC 98/23/Add.1Annex 9,page 1ANNEX 9RESOLUTION MSC.427(98)(adopted on 15 June 2017)AMENDMENTS TO THE REVISED RECOMMENDATION ON TESTINGOF LIFE-SAVING APPLIANCES(RESOLUTION MSC.81(70),AS AMENDED)THE MARITIME SAFETY COMMITTEE.RECALLING Article 28(b)of the Convention on the International Maritime Organizationconcerning the functions of the Committee.RECALLING ALSO resolution A689(17)entitled Testing of life-saving appliances,by whichthe Assembly,at its seventeenth session,adopted the Recommendation on testing oflife-saving appliances,RECALLING FURTHER that the Assembly,when adopting resolution A689(17),authorizedthe Committee to keep the Recommendation on testing of life-saving appliances under reviewand to adopt,when appropriate,amendments thereto,NOTING resolution MSC.81(70),by which,at its seventieth session,it adopted the Revisedrecommendation on testing of life-saving appliances,introducing more precise provisions forthe testing of life-saving appliances based on the requirements of the International Life-SavingAppliances (LSA)Code,RECOGNIZING the need to appropriately align the relevant provisions of the Revisedrecommendation on testing of life-saving appliances with the associated amendments tothe LSA Code adopted by resolution MSC.425(98),HAVING CONSIDERED,at its ninety-eighth session,proposed amendments to the Revisedrecommendation on testing of life-saving appliances,prepared by the Sub-Committee on ShipSystems and Equipment at its third session,1ADOPTS amendments to the Revised recommendation on testing of life-savingappliances (resolution MSC.81(70)),the text of which is set out in the annex to the presentresolution;2RECOMMENDS Member States to apply the annexed amendments when testinglife-saving appliances.I:MSC198MSC 98-23-Add-1.docx