The Maritime Safety Committee,
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The Maritime Safety Committee,

  1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its seventy-seventh session (28 May to 6 June 2003), with a view to ensuring a uniform approach towards the design, building and operation of high-speed craft constructed in accordance with the provisions of the 2000 HSC Code as well as SOLAS chapter X, approved interpretations of the provisions of the Code and SOLAS chapter X as set out in annexes 1 and 2 respectively, following the recommendations made by the Sub-Committee on Ship Design and Equipment at its forty-sixth session, the Sub-Committee on Fire Protection at its fortyseventh session and the Sub-Committee on Stability and Load Lines and on Fishing Vessels Safety at its forty-sixth session.

  2 Member Governments are invited to use the annexed interpretations when applying relevant provisions of the 2000 HSC Code and SOLAS chapter X, and to bring them to the attention of all parties concerned.

Parent topic: MSC/Circular.1102 – Interpretations of the 2000 HSC Code and SOLAS Chapter X – (15 September 2003)
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