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The Conference,

 HAVING ADOPTED the Protocol of 1988 relating to the International Convention on Load Lines, 1966 (the 1988 LL Protocol), which introduces, inter alia, the revision of articles and regulations of the International Convention on Load Lines, 1966 (the 1966 LL Convention), in order to standardize the periods of validity of certificates and intervals of surveys required by the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974 and the 1966 LL Convention,

 RECOGNIZING that the Parties to the 1988 LL Protocol will issue certificates under the 1966 LL Convention in the form prescribed by the 1988 LL Protocol.

  1. URGES Governments which are Contracting Governments to the 1966 LL Convention to become Parties to the 1988 LL Protocol at the earliest possible time;

  2. INVITES Governments which are Contracting Governments to the 1966 LL Convention but which are not Parties to the 1988 LL Protocol, following entry into force of the latter, to give to certificates issued under the 1966 LL Convention in the form prescribed by the 1988 LL Protocol the same recognition as that given to certificates issued under the 1966 LL Convention.


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