CHAPTER X.

SAFETY MEASURES FOR HIGH SPEED CRAFT

Amendments (Conference resolution 1) 1994

Entry into force - 01.01.1996

Passenger ships, high-speed craft, oil tankers, gas carriers, bulk carriers - 01.07.1998

Cargo ships, mobile offshore drilling units - 01.07.2002

With amendments

Regulation 1.
Definitions For the purpose of this chapter:

1. High-Speed Craft Code 1994 (1994 HSC Code) means the International Code of Safety for High-Speed Craft adopted by the Maritime Safety Committee of the Organization by resolution MSC.36(63), as may be amended by the Organization, provided that such amendments are adopted, brought into force and take effect in accordance with the provisions of article VIII of the present Convention concerning the amendment procedures applicable to the Annex other than chapter I.

2. High-Speed Craft Code, 2000 (2000 HSC Code) means the International Code of Safety for High-Speed Craft, 2000 adopted by the Maritime Safety Committee of the Organization by resolution MSC.97(73), as may be amended by the Organization, provided that such amendments are adopted, brought into force and take effect in accordance with the provisions of article VIII of the present Convention concerning the amendment procedures applicable to the Annex other than chapter I.

3. High-speed craft is a craft capable of a maximum speed, in metres per second (m/s), equal to or exceeding:

3,7V^0,1667

where:

V - volume of displacement corresponding to the design waterline, m³, excluding craft the hull of which is supported completely clear above the water surface in non-displacement mode by aerodynamic forces generated by ground effect.

4. The expression craft constructed means a craft the keel of which is laid or which is at a similar stage of construction.

5. The term similar stage of construction means a stage at which:

.1 construction identifiable with a specific craft begins; and

.2 assembly of that craft has commenced comprising at least 50 tonnes or 3% of the estimated mass of all structural material, whichever is less.

Regulation 2.
Application

1. This chapter applies to high speed craft constructed on or after 1 January 1996, as follows:

.1 passenger craft which do not proceed in the course of their voyage more than 4 hours at operational speed from a place of refuge when fully laden, and

.2 cargo craft of 500 gross tonnage and over which do not proceed in the course of their voyage more than 8 hours at operational speed from a place of refuge when fully laden.

2. Any craft, irrespective of the date of construction, which undergoes repairs, alterations, modifications and outfitting related thereto shall continue to comply with at least the requirements previously applicable to the craft. Such a craft, if constructed before 1 July 2002, shall, as a rule, comply with the requirements for a craft constructed on or after that date to at least the same extent as it did before undergoing such repairs, alterations, modifications or outfitting. Repairs, alterations and modifications of a major character, and outfitting related thereto, shall meet the requirements for a craft constructed on or after 1 July 2002 in so far as the Administration deems reasonable and practicable.

Regulation 3.
Requirements for high speed craft

1. Notwithstanding the provisions of chapters I to IV and regulations V/18, 19 and 20: