Resolution MSC.185(79)

ADOPTION OF AMENDMENTS TO THE CODE OF SAFETY FOR DIVING SYSTEMS

(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.536(13), by which the Assembly, at its thirteenth session, adopted the Code of Safety for Diving Systems,

NOTING that the Assembly authorized the Committee to amend the Code as may be necessary,

HAVING CONSIDERED, at its seventy-ninth session, amendments to the Code of Safety for Diving Systems proposed by the Sub-Committee on Flag State Implementation, at its eleventh session, which were approved by the Committee, at it is seventy-eighth session,

1. ADOPTS amendments to the Code of Safety for Diving Systems, 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.

Annex.

AMENDMENTS TO THE CODE OF SAFETY FOR DIVING SYSTEMS

APPENDIX.

MODEL FORM OF DIVING SYSTEM SAFETY CERTIFICATE

1. In the form of the Diving System Safety Certificate, the following new section is inserted between the section commencing with the words "This Certificate is valid until" and the section commencing with the words "Issued at":

    "Completion date of the survey on which this certificate

    is based: ................"