Resolution
MSC.182(79)
ADOPTION OF AMENDMENTS TO THE CODE FOR
THE CONSTRUCTION AND EQUIPMENT OF SHIPS CARRYING LIQUEFIED GASES IN BULK
(GC CODE)
(adopted on 9 December 2004)
THE
MARITIME SAFETY COMMITTEE,
RECALLING
Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization
concerning the functions of the Committee,
RECALLING
ALSO resolution A.328(IX), by which the Assembly, at its ninth session, adopted
the Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Liquefied Gases
in Bulk (Gas Carrier (GC) Code),
RECOGNIZING
the need for the amendments to the GC Code to become effective on the date on
which the corresponding amendments to the IGC Code enter into force,
HAVING
CONSIDERED, at its seventy-ninth session, amendments to the Gas Carrier Code
proposed by the Sub-Committee on Flag State Implementation, at its eleventh
session, which were approved by the Committee at its seventy-eighth session,
NOTING
resolution MSC.177(79), by which it adopted amendments to the International Code
for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Liquefied Gases in Bulk
(IGC Code),
1.
ADOPTS amendments to the Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships
Carrying Liquefied Gases in Bulk, as amended, the text of which is set out in
the Annex to the present resolution;
2.
DETERMINES that the said amendments should become effective on 1 July 2006 upon
acceptance and entry into force of the corresponding amendments to the IGC Code
adopted by resolution MSC.177(79).
Annex.
AMENDMENTS
TO THE CODE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND EQUIPMENT OF SHIPS CARRYING LIQUEFIED GASES IN BULK, AS AMENDED