THE CONFERENCE,

NOTING article VIII(c) of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974 (hereinafter referred to as "the Convention"), concerning the procedure for amending the Convention by a Conference of Contracting Governments,

HAVING CONSIDERED amendments to the Convention concerning radiocommunications proposed and circulated to the Members or the Organization and all Contracting Governments to the Convention,

1. ADOPTS, in accordance with article VIII(c)(ii) if the Convention, amendments to chapters I,II-I,III, IV, V of, and the appendix to the Convention, the texts of which arc given in the annex to the present resolution;

2. DECIDES, in accordance with article VIII(c)(iii), that the amendments shall be deemed to have been accepted and shall enter into force in accordance with the following procedures:

(a) The amendments shall be deemed to have been accepted on 1 February 1990, unless by that date one third of the Contracting Governments, or Contracting Governments the combined merchant fleets of which constitute not less than fifty per cent of the gross tonnage of the world's merchant fleet, notify the Secretary-General of the Organization that they object to the amendments;
(b) The amendments which are deemed to have been accepted in accordance with paragraph (a) shall enter into force with respect to all Contracting Governments except those which have objected to the amendments under paragraph (a) and which have not withdrawn such objections, on 1 February 1992.